I have a Thinkpad T410 where, after I installed Gentoo on it, everything "just
worked (TM)". The sound is via the bog-standard Intel chips on the mobo and
uses the hda_intel drivers. I didn't use the TP for a long time, just
periodically updating Gentoo, but when I eventually did try to use it the
sound was muted. This means I shut down the X server to remove complications
from the desktop and from the console aplay doesn't produce any sound.
Everything looks normal, driver modules loaded, alsamixer shows the usual
output, channels all active. I booted to a windows partition and the sound
works, so the hardware is OK. The very weird thing is if I put the TP to sleep
with acpitool and wake it up again, the sound works for about 60 seconds and
then dies. There is nothing in the message log at all when this happens. I
upgraded the kernel but that didn't help.
This problem has been dragging on for some years and I am contemplating a
complete re-install from scratch. But before I do that does anyone have any
idea what I could try?
TIA
Robin
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Robin Atwood.
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Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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