ThinkPad X200 (7454-CTO)

[Gary Dunn]

On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 15:44 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hello, I recently purchased a ThinkPad X200. I am attempting to run
> FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE (amd64) and have had some success. I have sound
> working from the headphone port (snd_hda), but not the speakers.

This appeared in a recent post to the Gnome list. My Dell is like
your's, no sound from built-in speakers. My Fujitsu has speakers on even
with headphones plugged in. More work to be done to catch up to current
laptop hardware.


                                  From: 
        Robert Noland
        <rnoland at freebsd.org>
                                    To: 
        Joe Marcus Clarke
        <marcus at marcuscom.com>
                                    Cc: 
        freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
                               Subject: 
        Re: PulseAudio only works with
        headphones
                                  Date: 
        Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:53:12 -0500
        (08:53 HST)
        
        
        On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:35 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
        > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:17 -0400, Mike Burns wrote:
        > > Not too many details for this one, sadly. Totem, etc., only
        output audio 
        > > through the line-out (headphone) jack.
        > > 
        > > System > Preferences > Sound > Output only lists /dev/dsp0 .
        > > 
        > > [mike] ~% cat /dev/sndstat
        > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64)
        > > Installed devices:
        > > pcm0: <HDA Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) PCM #0 Analog> at cad
        0 nid 1 on hdac0 
        > > kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
        > > pcm1: <HDA Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) PCM #1 Analog> at cad
        0 nid 1 on hdac0 
        > > kld snd_hda [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex)
        > > [mike] ~% ps ax | grep pulse
        > > 1408  ??  Is     0:00.97 /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio --start
        --log-target=syslog
        > > 1409  ??  I
        0:00.01 /usr/local/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
        > > [mike] ~% pulseaudio --version
        > > I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
        > > W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration
        but not allowed 
        > > by policy.
        > > pulseaudio 0.9.14
        > > 
        > > Is there another FAQ I'm missing?
        > > 
        > > 
        > > A bit of a background on this system: freshly installed
        7.2-RELEASE a week 
        > > ago, upgraded the OS to -STABLE and the ports to the latest
        as of Saturday.  
        > > The computer is a Thinkpad T500.
        > 
        > I think this probably should be reported to the mobile or
        sound people.
        > I have the same problem with the HDA sound card in my MacBook
        Pro.  The
        > internal speakers do not work, but headphones do.
        
        They are probably showing up as different codecs... In which
        case you
        have to either select the correct pcmX device or set
        hw.snd.default_unit=X to the correct codec.  Gnome currently
        doesn't
        seem to have the ability to deal with multiple codecs for
        different
        outputs, which kinda sucks...
        
        Most of my boxes have (desktop boards) have different hda codecs
        for
        front panel, rear, digital and HDMI ports.
        




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