Toshiba Sound Fix!

[bobtherocket]

Ok, lots of threads about the Toshiba sound not working well with Feisty...I found a fix...May be a bit sloppy, but I'm a newb.

EDIT: This works with the ALC861 and Intel HDA sound drivers, just to specify...I know it's not just for Toshiba.

Open terminal.

cd /etc/init.d

Create a new text file:

sudo gedit soundstartfix

Text to stick in:

#!/bin/bash
kill $(lsof -t /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* /dev/snd/*)
sudo modprobe -r snd-hda-intel && sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel model=auto

Save, then close the text editor.

Now you need to make it start with other schtuff, soo...

sudo update-rc.d soundstartfix defaults

(Wait for it to finish, then:)

sudo chmod +x soundstartfix

Reboot, and it should be working perfectly!

[jiminycricket]

Hi,
perhaps this can be in the Howto forum too, for archiving.

Thanks for posting this.

[dangerpl]

Perfect That resolves my problem with sound Make sure to spread this! There's quite a few people dealing with this problem!

[greenie9]

its cause me worse problems than i previously had...

before sound was always on, and at its loudest, no matter what (mute-ing sound, turning it down did nothing), i applied this and now i get the error message

No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found

can you please tell me either how to undo do this, or how to fix current problem...

btw i have an asus f3j laptop with a audio Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) (rev 02) sound card if that matters at all...

[bobtherocket]

This fix is specifically for the Intel HDA drivers...

[greenie9]

Originally Posted by bobtherocket This fix is specifically for the Intel HDA drivers...

it is a HDA driver

Originally Posted by result of lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce Go 7600] (rev a1) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01) 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) 06:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832 06:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) 06:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01) 06:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)

ive deleted the contents of the soundstart fix file, so my sound is back to being full volume... and whilst i can move the volume bar up and down, this has no affect on sound levels...

its rather annoying, so any/all help on this would be appreciated

[LuCiAn0]

Not worked here, everything works great but NO SOUND

[psyke83]

Hi,

A less hacky way to do the same is to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base and add to the end of the file:

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

Changes will take effect after a reboot.

[granite230]

Originally Posted by psyke83 Hi, A less hacky way to do the same is to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base and add to the end of the file: options snd-hda-intel model=auto Changes will take effect after a reboot.

What a relief! It works! Thanks for your solution!

[Lordcoca]

Originally Posted by psyke83 Hi, A less hacky way to do the same is to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base and add to the end of the file: options snd-hda-intel model=auto Changes will take effect after a reboot.

I get an permission denied error when I typed /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base into the terminal