Thinkpad T42p sound stopped working.[Solved]

Understudy list at understudy.net
Fri Dec 18 07:04:16 UTC 2009


Understudy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently had my sound stop working. It was fine and today it decided 
> to just stop. I threw in my old hard drive and sound worked fine on that.
>
> So lets go over what I have here.
> Thinkpad T42p
> FreeBSD Gargoyle.brendhanhorne.com 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: 
> Tue Aug 11 08:51:16 EDT 2009     
> root at Gargoyle.brendhanhorne.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STONE  i386
>
> Gargoyle# cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> at io 0xc0000c00, 0xc0000800 irq 11 bufsz 
> 16384  [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
>
> Gargoyle# ll /dev/dsp*
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0, 107 Dec 17 21:12 /dev/dsp0.0
>
> In my kernel
> # Sound support
> device          sound
> device          snd_ich
>
> dmesg
> pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0x1c00-0x1cff,0x18c0-0x18ff mem
> 0xc0000c00-0xc0000dff,0xc0000800-0xc00008ff irq 11 at device 31.5 on pci0
>
> Gargoyle# cat .history > /dev/dsp
> produces no static sound at all.
>
>
> So what I can I do now?
>
> Sincerely,
> Brendhan
>
>
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Well I found the problem.

In mixer the pcm was set at 0. I changed it to 99, I did not make any 
changes that would have put it at 0 so I don't know how it happened. 
However the problem is gone and sound is working.


Sincerely,
Brendhan



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