No sound Panasonic CF-W8

[listerdl]

HELP! Same problem on CF-F8. When Starting Win7 or Vista or XP there's no sound(sound driver installed), but after sleep mode it works. I tried to find the codes you have written here on Windows OS, the system files are not opening. how can I fix it?

I love the CF F8 - best machine. Ever. The F9 has been out for a while, 64 bit i5 processor, way more kick than our 32 bit machines.

Are you running ubuntu as well or are you only using windows? Let me know - i know the CF very well and can help.

[CommieIBanker]

I had this identical audio problem in 11.10 (fully updated through 2/18/12), and used 'laptop' (instead of 'thinkpad' though I suspect that would have worked as well).

Worked like a charm.

I encountered the same problem on Panasonic CF-W8.

I added the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and reboot. Then the speaker worked.

options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad

I don't know why the model name is "thinkpad". I tried other names such as "panasonic", "laptop", and "dell", but they didn't work.

[charleeontopvegas]

I had this identical audio problem in 11.10 (fully updated through 2/18/12), and used 'laptop' (instead of 'thinkpad' though I suspect that would have worked as well).

Worked like a charm.

Same problem here, but when I type in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
all I get is command not found, what am I doing wrong?
I type in /etc I get bash: /etc is a directory.

What am I doing wrong.

thanks charlee

[HopToIt]

Same problem here, but when I type in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
all I get is command not found, what am I doing wrong?
I type in /etc I get bash: /etc is a directory.

What am I doing wrong.

thanks charlee

you need to open gedit as the admin in order to save changes to alsa-base.conf
Enter following command in TERMINAL: sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

then add the following line and save changes:
options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad
or
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop

Another success getting headphone sense jack capability to reactivate on an CF-52 semi-rugged running 12.10 32-bit. No need to goof around with alsa-mixer, adding the model=thinkpad line now shuts off laptop speakers when inserting headphones. Will try the model=laptop flavor also to see if that works also.

Try this post for more detail about what's going on with the alsa.conf in this matter:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1043568