Thinkpads Forum

Does sound work out of the laptop's internal speakers for you? It doesn't for me, for some reason, while working fine out of headphones. Strangely though, the beeping noise you get when the Volume Up/Down keys on keyboard are pressed comes through fine from both headphones and speakers. Is this likely a problem with the hardware or the software? If it's the software, any ideas as to how it can be fixed? I'm running Ubuntu 5.04, with kernel 2.6.10.

I've tried changing the mixer setting and all, by the way.

I don't think the R Series Thinkpads have Hardware Mixers, at least none that I have seen so far; have you gotten tpb working? tpb supports a software mixer (not sure what you meant by mixer in your first post though, if you have tpb; it should work) and it allows you to control your volume via the volume buttons.

See; http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tpb

HTH

Thanks for the tips.

I installed tpb but unfortunately it hasn't fixed the problem of the speakers refusing to work, although headphones still do. One oddity I found was that when I pressed the Volume Up/Down buttons the tpb onscreen display responded accordingly, but didn't actually change the level of the volume in from headphones. I tried getting it to use the OSS mixer with the argument "--mixer=on" but it claimed it was incorrect even though a little googling said otherwise. :/ Any ideas? I bought the laptop second-hand, so that's why I'm worried that it is perhaps a hardware problem.

P.S. When I said "mixer" in my previous post I meant the OSS and ALSA software mixers, sorry for being a bit unclear on that.

What linux distro and version are you using?

Beep is from a different speaker on the system board I think so it could be a hardware issue.

Ubuntu 5.04 w/ kernel 2.6.10. Was the same under SuSE 9.1 w/ kernel 2.6.5 though.