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I have a T60 and I am running the FC5 kernel on CentOS 4, or even the Vanilla kernel 2.6.16. I get no sound -- I saw somewhere somebody had the same problem with the intel chipset but I am unable to find the post again. Does anybody have a solution for this?

It would be best if you provided a bit more description of the problem you're having. Is this a problem with ALSA or OSS? Gnome only or KDE or other WM? BTW, the intel chipset is known to be quite problematic (sound-wise) - if this should ease your concerns...

If this is an ALSA problem there are two possibilities that are affecting the sound output on your machine
1 - digital output, or PCM muted by default. If this is the case, start alsamixergui (or volume control) and unmute PCM but mute digital output.
2 - if you're encountering an error in Gnome or KDE with permission issues (you may see an error message like so in KDE: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied) ) then the problem is with malformed links (seems endemic to the 2.6.16 kernel). If this is the case, just download ALSA drivers, install those to fix the symbolic linkset on your installation and you'll be fine. You can even uninstall the drivers if you're using the kernel set. The point is that a driver install will fix up the broken or non-existant symlinks that should prevent a user from encountering permission issues.

I was having a similar problem with SuSE 10.1 on my T60p. The sound would only work until I reboot then I would have to reconfigure it again. From what I understand it was a IRQ problem. In the bios I changed the PCI IRQ settings from 11 to auto. Now it has been working like a charm.

I installed Ubuntu 6.06 on my T60p, and I was not able to get any sound, I've tried System->Preferences-->Sound and played with these options, but no luck. Anybody successful on getting the band to rock? Thanks

i too have not been able to get sound with ubuntu.

i figured it out; the problem i was having was that if the modem is disabled in bios, sound will not work for some reason. i turned it back on and it worked!