Intel sound not working; laptop crashes on logout
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I've been trying the 64 bit beta on a new Toshiba Satellite A105-4384 laptop, which uses a Core 2 Duo and Intel 950 chipset. A few early results:
- Wireless works fine; I just had to set the SSID and password and it connected. Great job!
- No sound at all. I think this uses the intel-hda-sound driver, which was not present, and didn't show up when I tried to insmod it. It's a common chipset so I think it should be in a base distro.
- Logging out as user "demo" left me at a blank screen with a cursor at top left, hung, needing power-off reboot. Logging off as "root" got a kernel panic with a lot on screen before needing the power-off reboot.
- 3D applications like TuxKart and Planet Penguin Racer did start up. Even Firefox didn't start from root, though Konqueror did.
- Synaptic didn't work from the live disk; it couldn't write to a needed directory. I can understand this, but I note that Ubuntu does know how to load into a live session.
To be sure, Linux sound on this laptop is problematic. Mandriva 2007 (64 bit) has noisy, distorted sound. SimplyMEPIS 6 (32 bit) has somewhat noisy sound. The only distro I've found with good sound is Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy (which I used via the Linux Mint fork).
Still, I'm looking forward to a good 64-bit MEPIS!
Solved: No sound on notebooks with Intel Audio
Posts: 80
isdnip
Did you check the volume levels of all output channels in the mixer? I too didnt have sound working when booting MEPIS beta1 CD on Acer Aspire 3682 but discovered that the volume settings for the front speakers were set too low. Once I bumped these to right levels, the sound worked fine.
The speaker settings are labeled front, surround, center etc.
Hope this helps.