Lenovo G560 or Lenovo G460

[nilankaraja]

Hi Stratok,

I have been looking at this thread since my laptop has the same problem.
And when I repeat the things you said I was able to make the headphone jack working but again the internal mic stopped working. When I use hda analyzer and put the setting you said it started working. but the setting go away after reboot..

In this link

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1618138

Some guy has fixed the error with hda analyzer and put it in a one line command using a tool called "hda-verb"

I am not able to do it myself and get it to work. But I think you can try.
If you have succeeded please tell us too.



Nilanka

[nilankaraja]

Hi Everyone,

I fixed the sound problem by adding few lines to the /etc/rc.local file

Now the mic-jack and the internal mic work even after reboot. Used the method used in the thread I posted earlier (hda-verb tool)

My rc.local file looks like this now: If some one can tell if there's a better way that adding this to rc.local file please tell me.

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x14 SET_CONNECT_SEL 0
/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_CONNECT_SEL 0
/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_PIN_WIDGET_CONTROL 3
exit 0

[xenico]

That solution helped me, until there was another alsa update yesterday. Today I hear sound just from speakerboxes with the headphones plugged in...
Does any one have a hint how to solve that issue?

thanks,
xenico

[qednick]

Just bought mine over the weekend. Really really pleased so far.

It came with Win7 pre-installed. Took a full 2 mins or so to boot up and about 1 full minute to shut down. During my "brief" Win7 experience, I tried to launch Internet Explorer. I clicked the icon only to be presented with a round spinning icon. I clicked several times - no luck. About 2 minutes later, 6 I.E. windows suddenly appeared. So much for a dual boot system... I just got out my Xubuntu install disk and wiped the damned thing!!

Only quirks I noticed after install were black screen (even though live CD worked great). So I promptly reinstalled again but this time made sure I was hard-wired to the internet so updates can be downloaded during install.

After that, everything worked great. Wireless. DVD burner. Track pad with two-finger scrolling. Sound input/output (inc. headphone jack). Web cam. Only thing I haven't tried yet is the sound on the HDMI output (as mentioned by other poster).

So I'm not sure if it's because I installed Xubuntu rather than full-blown Ubuntu but I haven't experienced any of the other issues mentioned on this thread.

On another note... I installed Virtual Box with WinXP (occasionally I have to go to the dark side for programming purposes). With the base 2 gig of ram, it runs WinXP in VB far faster than it did Win7 natively.

Overall, I am EXTREMELY pleased with the G560 and would highly recommend one to anyone planning to get a low-cost but fast linux laptop. I ordered a full 8GB of ram which should arrive tomorrow by UPS. So next step will be to see how upgrading goes.

[nilankaraja]

Hi Xenio, I am using a fully updates kubuntu 10.10 version with alsa verion 1.0.23+dfsg-1ubuntu4 (synaptic says) The solution helped me and my headphone jack and external mic works even now.

[marce99]

Hi, well, first of all, i'm new with all this linux stuff. I tried Ubuntu 10.10 32bits on my lenovo g560. Everything was perfect, in order to have wifi i had upgrade drivers, and that was all. My first problem was with the sound, which i repaired reading one of the answers below. But then i started getting error messages every time i uninstalled or installed new programs. These errors where always related to the same file, i don't remember it's exact name, I think it was linux conexant (sth related to audio drivers). So i read that some people removed the drivers and then installed them again in order to solve the problem, so to rom i decided to reinstall the whole thing. When i removed it i had no more errors, even emesene started working (it couldn't connect before). A user had the same experience so far. The problem was reinstalling the sound drivers again. I get errors in the same step always. The worst thing is that i don't know which is exactly the name of my sound car. On windows seven, through aida64, i got conexant cx20585 or intel high definition audio... but i cannot make this thing work again. I'm thinking of format... maybe stay with windows seven and XP as a second option, because my linux experience with this notebook was terrible... maybe i should try my old desktop pc. (before trying this ubuntu 10.10 x32bits, i tried open suse 64bits, and i had problems with wifi.)
The guide I used is this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449
Maybe it'll help someone else, i know it's a good guide, but I keep getting errors every time i try with sth different.

My other problem is that i have to use the same command always that i turn on my notebook using the battery in order to get wifi working well:
sudo iwconfig eth1 power off

I only want to make sound work again, so if someone know for other possible solution, please let me know.

[f3dja]

Hi Everyone,

I fixed the sound problem by adding few lines to the /etc/rc.local file

Now the mic-jack and the internal mic work even after reboot. Used the method used in the thread I posted earlier (hda-verb tool)

My rc.local file looks like this now: If some one can tell if there's a better way that adding this to rc.local file please tell me.

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x14 SET_CONNECT_SEL 0
/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_CONNECT_SEL 0
/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_PIN_WIDGET_CONTROL 3
exit 0

try:
hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x14 SET_CONNECT_SEL 0
hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_CONNECT_SEL 0
hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_AMP_GAIN_MUTE 0xb003
instead!

[nilankaraja]

try:
hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x14 SET_CONNECT_SEL 0
hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_CONNECT_SEL 0
hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_AMP_GAIN_MUTE 0xb003
instead!

Hi f3dja,

My lenovo g460 sound works fine with no problems with current changes. Can you please tell me what's the advantage of adding the above lines? I see only the last line is different.
Thank you.

[f3dja]

Well, the internal mic-in of my g560 was not working... About 1 year ago I applied the headfon jack fix (options snd-hda-intel model=ideapad to alsa-base.conf); I can't remember if the mic-in was working back then... but now (ubuntu 10.10) it did not work! I googled and found this post; i ran the hda-analyzer (http://www.alsa-project.org/hda-analyzer.py) and realized that the settings proposed by Stratok fixed the problem; however these settings were lost after reboot. I tried your fix; however the last line (hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_PIN_WIDGET_CONTROL 3) did not do anything on my system. Changing the line to (hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D1 0x17 SET_AMP_GAIN_MUTE 0xb003) did the trick for me since it enabled the mic "boost". (It sets the "val" sliders in node0x17 to 3). Fedja

[pneaveill]

Cannot find it now, but saw a couple of months ago somewhere that the Lenovo may use any of several audio chipsets. Mine in particular uses the

conexant cx 20585 and the Intel IbexPeak hdmi.

I ran the previous stuff and the jack is not working properly in ubuntu, but works fine in win7.

-------- edit ------------

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Di...ver/m-p/307728 reveals this:

Add to end of file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf the follow line:
 
options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad

Not certain why it worked this time and not previously, but is working. Thanks