Lenovo thinkpad showing nothing under aplay -l

[Chetan_Sanghani]

Hi

To start off, I'm sorry to say I am a complete beginner to Ubuntu and am a Windows convert. Recently I have been having an issue where my onboard sound card doesn't show up under the sound settings, all I get is "Dummy Output"

The obvious aim for this post is to see if I can restore sound to my machine.

After some net research, every solution seemed to be from before 2010... so I am stumped. What little I did find out is that when I look under aplay I get this response

chetan@Chets-Laptop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

When I sudo lspci -v I get this :
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61/R61
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0a <?>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel


00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61/R61
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
Kernel driver in use: i915


00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61/R61
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3


00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20de
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
Memory at f8200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at f8225000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: e1000e


00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd


00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T60
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd


00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at f8426c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci


00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17
Memory at f8220000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link


00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: f4000000-f5ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f8500000-00000000f85fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link
Kernel driver in use: pcieport


00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: f6000000-f7ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f8600000-00000000f86fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link
Kernel driver in use: pcieport


00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 18a0 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd


00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 18c0 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd


00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at f8427000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci


00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=08, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00007fff
Memory behind bridge: d4000000-d7efffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d8000000-00000000dbffffff
Capabilities: [50] Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61


00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Lenovo T61
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich


00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 18e0 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix


00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
I/O ports at 1c30 [size=8]
I/O ports at 1c24 [size=4]
I/O ports at 1c28 [size=8]
I/O ports at 1c20 [size=4]
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=32]
Memory at f8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/4 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA v1.0
Kernel driver in use: ahci


00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at f8427400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 1c40 [size=32]


03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1011
Physical Slot: 3
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
Memory at f7f00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-1f-3b-ff-ff-97-37-9f
Kernel driver in use: iwl4965


05:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20c6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16
Memory at d7eff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=05, secondary=06, subordinate=07, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: d8000000-dbffffff (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 80000000-83ffffff
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus


05:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20c7
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at d7efe800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci


05:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad W500
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at d7efe400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci

I don't really know what do from this point onwards, if anyone has any suggestions, that would be grand as I'm at my wits end here.

[tgalati4]

It should look like:


tgalati4@tpad-Gloria7 ~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I have an older Thinkpad, T43p, but the sound chip is an Intel ICH6. Yours is an ICH8. It's strange that some drivers think your machine is a T60, yet your machine is really a W500.

Was sound working at all, or has it never worked? It should be plug-and-play with no extra effort on your part. You can try restarting pulseaudio:

pulseaudio -k

You will want to spend a little time learning how pulseaudio works: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Soft...ulseAudio/FAQ/

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...chooser.1.html

Check to make sure you have ALSA installed. It provides the actual modules to handle the sound chips.

apt-cache policy alsa-utils

The script that actually loads alsa: /etc/init.d/alsa-utils

It's helpful to go through it and see if you have any issues.

cat /var/log/udev

will show what hardware is detected and loaded.

[Chetan_Sanghani]

the sound HAS worked in the past, but I don't know when it stopped...

I tried restarting pulseaudio to no avail... and alsa-utils claims its installed. However when i "cat /var/log/udev" I'm seeing references to toshiba EVERYWHERE, just what in the name of seven hells is going on with the drivers here : /

[tgalati4]

It's possible that your sound chip crapped out and thus udev doesn't recognize it. Do you have a rescue partition with Lenovo diagnostic utilities? If you load the diagnostics and the sound doesn't work, then that would be a clue.

Does this machine dual-boot? Does sound work in Windows?

This is what udev looks like on a newer machine (Acer extensa) with an ICH8 sound chip:

tgalati4@Mint14-Extensa /var/log $ grep toshiba udev
tgalati4@Mint14-Extensa /var/log $ grep TOSHIBA udev
tgalati4@Mint14-Extensa /var/log $ grep INTEL udev
tgalati4@Mint14-Extensa /var/log $ grep intel udev
DRIVER=agpgart-intel
DRIVER=agpgart-intel
KERNEL[31.789567] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight (backlight)
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight
KERNEL[32.039894] add /module/snd_hda_intel (module)
DEVPATH=/module/snd_hda_intel
FIRMWARE=intel-ucode/06-0f-0d
KERNEL[32.800927] add /bus/pci/drivers/snd_hda_intel (drivers)
DEVPATH=/bus/pci/drivers/snd_hda_intel
UDEV [32.805155] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight (backlight)
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight
UDEV [32.861141] add /module/snd_hda_intel (module)
DEVPATH=/module/snd_hda_intel
UDEV [32.926189] add /bus/pci/drivers/snd_hda_intel (drivers)
DEVPATH=/bus/pci/drivers/snd_hda_intel
FIRMWARE=intel-ucode/06-0f-0d
FIRMWARE=intel-ucode/06-0f-0d
FIRMWARE=intel-ucode/06-0f-0d
FIRMWARE=intel-ucode/06-0f-0d
FIRMWARE=intel-ucode/06-0f-0d
FIRMWARE=intel-ucode/06-0f-0d
FIRMWARE=intel-ucode/06-0f-0d

No toshiba entries.

[Chetan_Sanghani]

I wussed out and reinstalled, aplay -l shows the controller and sound works, hell, it even recognised as an x61s now, cheers for the help