I have a T41 running FC3 and I have sound. There was an issue with sound in the latest 2 stock kernels, but recompiling seems to have made that issue go away.On my Dell Inspiron I had a problem with no "Fn" key * Function key commands were recognized and found after researching the problem this is solved by editing grub.conf to include "acpi=off" on the line that calls the kernel. Once you reboot and make sure APM daemon is running your "Fn" Key + Sleep key should work.
Fred
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:08 -0500, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
Harry,
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 21:49, Harry Hoffman wrote:
Chris,
Awesome! glad to hear it was solvable. What's the problem you are having with alsamixer?
The problem is that there is no sound. There is a little trick that some people have suggested: open alsamixer and set Head Phone Jack Sense and Line Jack Sense to 'Mute'. But that hasn't made a different.
system-config-soundcard has detected the card but when I click the 'Play Test Sound' button, there is only silence. Volume level is about 3/4 up.
I read somewhere that this is an unsolved issue in Thinkpads. Another unsolved issue seems to be, that I can't get the machine to sleep. It worked once, only once, but when I woke it up again, it went to shut itself down (clean). This is one area where I must say, Apple did a great job with OS X and their Powerbooks. My powerbook goes to sleep within less than a second and wake up is instant.
Best regards, Chris
PS. Trying sound from KDE instead of GNOME - same (no) result.
As far as suspend, try Software Suspend 2. I use it and I suspend in about 30 seconds and resume just fine. Again, compiled kernel is the only way to get there.
Shannon
