Ubuntu Multimedia :: Microphone On Thinkpad Edge On Maverick?
Oct 30, 2010
I have a Thinkpad edge. I am travelling right now, and will be for the next 2 weeks, and just discovered that my thinkpad's internam microphone won't work. Plugging in an external one won't work either.This means that I won't be able to communicate with friends & family for 2 weeks... any help to patch this problem will be IMMENSELY welcome.
Symptoms are strange: I can go to Sound Preferences, select Analog Stereo Duplex as hardware, click on "Input", change the input volume, mute it, unmute it... everything works fine. However, if I tap against the mike, the input level bit doesn't move at all. Needless to say, nothing sees it.
Here is the output of the ALSA Information script... which looks like greek to me! Help...
!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.59
!!################################
!!Script ran on: Sat Oct 30 13:28:44 UTC 2010
!!Linux Distribution
[code]....
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Oct 10, 2010
I updated my ubuntu today from 10.04.1 to 10.10 and my microphone stopped working. There is no connector option in the input tab to choose the microphone. I checked everything in alsamixer and still nothing. I had no problems in 10.04.1.
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Jan 19, 2011
Slackware 13.1 installed clean on a new ThinkPad Edge (version 13 inch with AMD Processor and ATI graphics). I can get most of what I want working fine except for suspend and resume. I read somewhere that I should be using generic rather than huge kernel, so I have done that and scrapped ATI proprietary driver in case that was causing problems, but nothing so far has allowed me to suspend and resume with pm-suspend, acpitool suspend or with KDE suspend command. In all cases the screen blanks and the single ThinkPad red LED goes from on to blinking, but nothing seems to wake the machine up again. I had both suspend and hibernate working fine with Slack 13.1 on an older Lenovo laptop and ubuntu users report on their forums that this laptop does suspend and resume "out of the box" so I feel it must be possible.
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Apr 13, 2011
I am trying to use my accelerometer as joystick just so I know it's working, but I can't figure out how. To my surprise, Ubuntu doesn't seem to have a nice GTK joystick testing dialog. There used to be hdaps-gl out there for testing, but this was for very old models and is only released for Ubuntu 8.04 afaik. So I tried installing neverball for that purpose. It doesn't have options for joystick selection, but apparently it works out of the box with a Thinkpad T61.
Code:
sudo aptitude install tp-smapi-dkms
sudo modprobe tp_smapi
sudo modprobe hdaps
dmesg:
Code:
[720.093604] thinkpad_ec: thinkpad_ec 0.40 loaded.
[720.095348] tp_smapi 0.40 loading...
[720.095786] tp_smapi successfully loaded (smapi_port=0xb2).
[842.860767] thinkpad_ec: thinkpad_ec_read_row: failed waiting for data: (0x13:0x00)->0xfffffff0
[842.860773] hdaps init failed at: hdaps_get_ec_mode failed
[842.861321] input: ThinkPad HDAPS joystick emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input10
[842.861696] input: ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer data as /devices/virtual/input/input11
[842.861883] hdaps: driver successfully loaded.
lsmod:
Code:
Module Size Used by
hdaps 10772 0
tp_smapi 26194 0
thinkpad_ec 5842 2 hdaps,tp_smapi
(..)
I've also tried to use jstest with
/dev/input/js[0|1]
and
/devices/virtual/input/input10/[many things]
But the former gives static 0 for both axes and the second gives error messages (you're probably not supposed to use it like this).
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Jul 28, 2011
I bought a thinkpad Edge 13" with AMD CPU (NV338) and installed f15 on it. First boot : no WiFi...
Code:
lspci -n
...
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0576] (rev 01)
14e4:0576 is actually BCM43224 broadcom chip, supposed to work with broadcom-wl driver (non-free...)
So I installed broadcom-wl + kmod-wl, reboot, check if it really get installed :
Code:
lsmod | grep wl
wl 1954479 0
lib80211 4103 1 wl
Ok but... no WiFi interface visible... Few dmesg :
Code:
dmesg |grep radio
[ 22.289176] thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled
[ 22.310166] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is blocked
(wifi toogle seems not working btw)
[code]....
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Sep 16, 2010
Recently I got a lenovo laptop and installed opensuse 11.3 from live usb distribution, well the issue is when I want to listen to some music and plug in my headphones, the laptop speakers do not turn off automatically.
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Oct 10, 2010
I updated my ubuntu today from 10.04.1 to 10.10 and my microphone stopped working. I spotted a message during the loading of 10.10 that modprobe failed starting because some file was missing.
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Sep 29, 2010
I"m running an online radio station and would like to run my headphone audio into my microphone or a virtual microphone, either way, I would like my audience to hear what I hear without having to hold the Mic to the speakers.
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Apr 1, 2010
I have two monitors set up on my Asus N61J laptop, but have a weird problem:When I move the mouse to right-hand edge of the Left (Primary) screen, it disappears. To get it back, I have to either keep moving it to the next screen, or move it over something that will cause it to change shape.It also happens if I move it to the left-hand edge the Right (Secondary) screen. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix this? It's a little annoying, as it makes it hard to select the Logout/Shutdown/Status menu
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Feb 5, 2010
This used to work. I don't know why it doesn't now.
It works on the Windows XP partition.
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Jul 29, 2010
I can't get sound to work and am not sure how to trouble shoot. The sound DOES work when first booting, and I can make it play a test beep with the sound config app. But I cannot get sound from any other application. One possibly relevant fact is that I see a lot of I/O errors early in the boot process, but they flash by quickly so I cannot quote them.
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Dec 8, 2010
I had taken a long break from Ubuntu, but now I'm back on it. I just installed 9.10 Karmic on my Lenovo Thinkpad R61i, and it's beautiful....except there's no sound.
I have gone through the Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide, to no avail. As well, I have searched the all of the Internets, and still have no sound.
Here is some system info:
Code:
tomdabomb2u@tomdabomb2u-thinkpad:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
code....
I also added options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad to the end of my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file. Still nothing. I would really like to hear the Antoine Dodson song on my laptop...not sure how much longer I can go.
Note: Everything in Sound Preferences appears to be working, I just still can't HEAR anything.
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Jan 2, 2011
after a recent foray into Ubuntu. Every day is a school day at the moment, so please be gentle! I recently obtained an old IBM Thinkpad T41 which I've made dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu (windows was my backup option - it's installed but with none of the drivers; thankfully I've not yet hit a problem Ubuntu can't handle!) and which is connected up to the TV in our lounge. I have installed XBMC on it, and we're currently enjoying having access to all sorts of multi-media and iPlayer in the lounge. The thinkpad connects to our home network wirelessly, using the Thinkpad's built in wireless hardware - providing a whopping 11Mbps connection. Our media is all stored on NAS on the network, and I thought that even full 54Mbps wireless would not be fast enough to stream videos smoothly onto another machine.
However we have two windows laptops (one windows 7, one windows xp) which have 54Mbps connections and they can stream the videos smoothly from the NAS, so clearly I was wrong (wer'e not talking High def or blue ray rips here or anything). So my first question. Does anyone have an recommendations of a 54Mbps wireless card (PCMCIA preferably) that is compatible with both Ubuntu and the Thinkpad so that I can improve it's connection speed to the network? I have a "Max Value" branded card in the windows xp laptop (bought cheaply from Amazon) that I tried to but failed miserably to get working in the Thinkpad with Ubuntu last night. All hints and tips welcome....
Second question: Improving video playback on the thinkpad. Some of the videos were a bit choppy, which I thought was just to do with video quality. However having been playing them on the windows xp laptop - Sony Vaio PCG-FR215S, so similar in age and processor speed to the thinkpad - they play absolutely perfectly. So what are my options for improving the video playback on the Thinkpad running Ubuntu? - Upgrade memory to 1GB from 512MB? Will this make much difference? The sony has been upgraded to 1GB, which is why I ask the question. Do I have any options on the dedicated graphics processing hardware front? I'm guessing they are severely restricted as it's a laptop, but thought I'd ask as obviously I'd only be interested in something that is supported by Ubuntu.
Nvidia acceleration is enabled in Ubuntu, and in XBMC. The playback quality in XBMC is comparable with using VLC so I don't think there is anything XBMC specific to be concerned with at the moment.
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I guess my choices are Gnome, KDE and xfce. I think KDE 4 will be too bloated so I guess that leaves Gnome and xfce. I also read that LXDE is actually a 'beta' (release?) even though LXDE versions are in 'release' form. I come across too many 'bugs' so I think the other desktops, even if it takes up a bit more resources, is a compromise I have to take.
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Sep 26, 2010
I've installed a clean Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on my ThinkPad T61, and everything seems to be OK, but I am unable to get any sound output at all (internal speakers and external audio).
No system sounds, no sound from Movie Player, Rythmbox, Sound Recorder.
On my previous Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 I had no problems with sound (as far as I can recall).
Any hints to what I should do to try to get sound output?
The output from various sound related commands included below.
Code:
$ sudo lshw -C sound
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
code....
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I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on an oldish IBM Thinkpad X32 (12.1in 1024x768 LCD, 16MB ATI Radeon). On the initial install of 9.10 I couldn't get any higher resolutions working, following the instructions in [URL]..
1024x768 resolution is running ok but some graphics are noticeably slow - a prime example is the "File Browser", switching from one app to this app, you see a grey window for a second, and then finally the File Manager displays.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
# Screen "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
[Code]...
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I did some mess with adobe flash player and now I have no soound on my Thinkpad T60.
root@debian:/etc/modprobe.d# dpkg -l|grep alsa
ii alsa-base 1.0.25+3~deb7u1 all ALSA driver configuration files
ii alsa-utils 1.0.25-4 i386 Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
ii bluez-alsa:i386 4.99-2 i386 Bluetooth ALSA support
ii libsox-fmt-alsa 14.4.0-3 i386 SoX alsa format I/O library
ii libwine-alsa:i386 1.4.1-4 i386 Windows API implementation - ALSA sound module
[CODE]..
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I have no audio on thinkpad x120e.
Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
kernel: 2.6.38-bpo.2-686
alsamixer shows 1 square in the middle (S/PDIF). code...
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??ati rage mobility m3 video card ??
when I start up ubuntu (10.10) and reach the desktop, the screen is messed up. The center of the screen becomes blurry, and it looks like what is normally the right part of the screen is duplicated in the middle of the screen (with what should be the middle of the screen disappearing).
I think its an ATI video card, and I tried to install different driver from Softwarecenter but no succes.I know the screen is working, because when I boot forinstance, the Ibm logo is showed nicely across the screen. So its not a hardware issue. Another thing, I got puppy linux to work correctly after having the same grapphic issues on that OS when I first installed it. But some how I managed to get the right drivers. But as I like ubuntu more, I would appriciate your help with figuring this out
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Feb 21, 2010
I am trying to get my microphone to work on my Creative Soundblaster Audigy card. It's not muted AFAIK, but I can't get the sound recorder to record anything; nothing shows up on the sound level thingy.I have imagebin'd a screenshot of my current sound input settings:URL...
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How to install a microphone on the system? I have a microphone but when I plug it in it is not seen by the system.
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Apr 21, 2010
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May 3, 2010
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Oct 4, 2010
I can't get my microphone to work with ubuntu/alsa....
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Dec 3, 2010
At some point i probably messed up my sound configuration, and now i cant record anymore.
What works : * I have pulseaudio, i can play sound from several apps simultaneously, eg : mpd + vlc + firefox + skype
Remarks :
* pulse-audio is as system-wide installed.
* I have installed linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.32-26-generic
* I have 1 internal sound card (on the main board) + 1 ATI graphic card with HDMI output (and thus a sound chip)
* I have 2 output-plugs (1 normal + 1 headphone)
* I have 3 inputs (2 microphones + 1 line in)
* In the past, i installed a PCI sound card, for testing. It may remains old configuration files related to it.
THE PROBLEMS :
* I can not record. In the Pulse-applet / Volume control, in the tab "recording", in the tab "input device" (i translate from french), i can choose between mic1, mic2 and line in, but none of them has any effect on the volume meter.
* In the the tab "configuration", there is no sound card listed, just the message "no car available for configuration" ... that might show that smthg is wrong ! Notice that in the past (but still under lucid), it used to work. There was here all the cards (internal + HDMI video card) listed.
Output of alsa-info.sh :
Code:
upload=true&script=true&cardinfo=
!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.59
!!################################
!!Script ran on: Fri Dec 3 09:01:14 UTC 2010
[Code].....
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Dec 4, 2010
I can't seem to get my microphone working. All the levels are maxed, nothing is muted. I've checked pavucontrol, alsamixer, and sytem-preferences-sound, but according to all that, there is nothing muted, and all the levels are maxed. I'm running ubuntu 10.04. My mic works fine in Windows vista, but not in Ubuntu. I am thinking I may need to update my drivers or something. Also I've gone over the forums but haven't found a solution that works, many of them involve changing the levels in system-preferences-sound, but again, that doesn't work. I've posted the results of aplay -l [URL].
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I have another issue, my microphone does not record at all!! When I try to record, it just makes this....dot. dot sound.I have a Gateway NV53 laptop with an internal microphone built in Does anyone know a solution to it?I've done some research and it all seems to end up in a dead...end. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and everything is up to date and working so far.
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I'm having trouble getting 11.04 to recognize my microphone. I have no connector option in sound preferences under input and I have turned the playback volume down for my mic all the way in alsa mixer as well as made sure that the capture volume is all the way up.
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