no sound in toshiba tablet

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by nordlibris

I have the the same tablet as you, and to get sound, I fire up YAST. Start the sound module, click edit on the sound card popping up, and enter toshiba as the model.

If the model option "toshiba" works, that suggests the tablet has an ALC267/268, or an ALC861/660 or an AD1981 hardware audio codec. One of the reasons why I was pushing user mikearzan to run the diagnostic script, was it would tell me what hardware audio codec his tablet has.

For information, here are some entries from the list in ALSA-Configuration.txt file for 1.0.18a of alsa:

	ALC267/268
	  quanta-il1	Quanta IL1 mini-notebook
	  3stack	3-stack model
	  toshiba	Toshiba A205
	  acer		Acer laptops
	  acer-dmic	Acer laptops with digital-mic
	  acer-aspire	Acer Aspire One
	  dell		Dell OEM laptops (Vostro 1200)
	  zepto		Zepto laptops
	  test		for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can
			adjusted.  Appearing only when compiled with
			$CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
	  auto		auto-config reading BIOS (default)

	ALC861/660
	  3stack	3-jack
	  3stack-dig	3-jack with SPDIF I/O
	  6stack-dig	6-jack with SPDIF I/O
	  3stack-660	3-jack (for ALC660)
	  uniwill-m31	Uniwill M31 laptop
	  toshiba	Toshiba laptop support
	  asus		Asus laptop support
	  asus-laptop	ASUS F2/F3 laptops
	  auto		auto-config reading BIOS (default)

	AD1981
	  basic		3-jack (default)
	  hp		HP nx6320
	  thinkpad	Lenovo Thinkpad T60/X60/Z60
	  toshiba	Toshiba U205

[mikearzan]

Hello old cpu
sorry about getting back to you so late.I was trying to take care of this problem mostly today and i can say i must have been working on it probably more than 20 hours in the past 3 or 4 days .before anything i would say you are a great person and you did everything to solve my problem ,but well sometimes ,somebody's bad luck affects somebody elses' good intentions.anyways ,i also tried the other gentelman's suggestion regarding changing the sound card module to toshiba and so on but again no luck .i tried every single option in that sound troubleshooting which you reffered me to earlier,nothing again and i really do not want to bother any more and i am ready to give up.I think at this point linux is too complicated for me .BTW,your explanation about root user made a great sense to me and i learned a lot.thanks again .mike

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by mikearzan

Hello old cpu
sorry about getting back to you so late.I was trying to take care of this problem mostly today and i can say i must have been working on it probably more than 20 hours in the past 3 or 4 days .before anything i would say you are a great person and you did everything to solve my problem ,but well sometimes ,somebody's bad luck affects somebody elses' good intentions.anyways ,i also tried the other gentelman's suggestion regarding changing the sound card module to toshiba and so on but again no luck .i tried every single option in that sound troubleshooting which you reffered me to earlier,nothing again and i really do not want to bother any more and i am ready to give up.I think at this point linux is too complicated for me .BTW,your explanation about root user made a great sense to me and i learned a lot.thanks again .mike

I suspect this is solveable, ... its really a matter of unfamiliarity with Linux is making this appear much more difficult than it actually is. If you can give me the output URL provided by running:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

and also the output of running:

cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

I can likely give you a recommendation to fix the sound problem.

Good luck in what ever path you go.

[mikearzan]

Hello again old cpu

ya.i'm still here,you made me to stay and don't give up so quick.another reason is ,despite having some early problems with it which is normally not necesessary in today's computer envoirenment (everything is ready to go right out of the box),i really like linux .
below ,you will find the two things you asked me for ,the top one is the link to the url and the second is the output,which i'm pretty sure there is no need to tell you what is what.I thank you again for the time you are spending for thiss .

│
│ Kernel release: 2.6.27.7-9-default │
│ Operating System: GNU/Linux │
│ Architecture: i686 │
│ Processor: i686 │
│ SMP Enabled: Yes │
│ │
│ │
│ !!ALSA Version │
│ !!------------ │
│ │
│ Driver version: 1.0.17 │
│ Library version: │
├────↓(+)───────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────3%──────┤
│ < EXIT > │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────┘
Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=62...43b2eb8b7d93e7

Please inform the person helping you.

mikearzan@linux-ksiq:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
# u1Nb.QoA91lxoybA:82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by mikearzan

Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=62...43b2eb8b7d93e7

Thankyou for that. I see that your Toshiba Tablet has an ALC268 audio hardware codec.

Please add a line to your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, such that it now reads:

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
# u1Nb.QoA91lxoybA:82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

then restart your PC and test your sound. Please be very careful in checking your mixer.

Note you need root permissions to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file. You can do this by typing:

kdesu kwrite /etc/modprobe.d/sound

enter root password when prompted. Make the change and save the file.

Again, to determine if you have sound, please copy and paste the following speaker-test into a Gnome terminal or a kde konsole:

speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav

You should hear a female voice saying 'FRONT LEFT', 'FRONT RIGHT' five times

[nordlibris]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

Thankyou for that. I see that your Toshiba Tablet has an ALC268 audio hardware codec.

Please add a line to your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, such that it now reads:

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
# u1Nb.QoA91lxoybA:82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

then restart your PC and test your sound. Please be very careful in checking your mixer.

Note you need root permissions to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file. You can do this by typing:

kdesu kwrite /etc/modprobe.d/sound

enter root password when prompted. Make the change and save the file.

Brilliant my good sir.
I forgot to mention the above, in case Yast did not do the trick. Had to edit that file under 11.0, but not under 11.1 or 10.3.

A few other tips regarding that tablet. Don't update the gstreamer packages if you add the packman repo since that makes your webcam unusable by cheese. I have no idea why, but if your interested I'm sure there are several bright heads on this site capable of explaining it.

Sax will add two input devices in your xorg.conf for the alps touchpad. Remove them both and substitute them with this:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.1"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "15"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "15"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "90"
Option "FingerHigh" "17"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "MaxSpeed" "3"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.2"
Option "Name" "ALPS;Touchpad"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Doing that will enable two finger scrolling....please remove the superfluous entry in Xorgs serverlayout. In the above text the mouse is identifed as mouse 1.

Sax won't set up the touch screen for you, even if you aply the patch by Rene Van Paasen. Add this to your xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "Mouse[13]"
Option "BaudRate" "38400"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "InputFashion" "Touch"
Option "Mode" "Absolute"
Option "Name" "portege m700"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Type" "touch"
Option "Vendor" "TABLET PCs"
EndSection

Update serverlayout accordingly.

Add the following to your boot.local (I assume you've seen the link provided in the previous post to get the pen working)
modprobe -a toshiba_acpi. That loads the toshiba kernel module on boot and enables you to suspend and resume without a hitch,

[mikearzan]

Dear old cpu

you are the best.Thank you very much,you are the master .Everything works now,Ichecked one radio station to make sure this is not just temproary.It is beautiful when you have sound and it is excellent when you have it after such a hard work with the guidance of a great master.

and

Dear friend NORDLIBRIS

thank you very much for your attention to this matter.I didn't get a chance to check the stuff you mentioned yet,when i come back home this evening ,i will jump in to it and deffinitely let you know what was the outcome.

again thank you all.mike

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by mikearzan

Everything works now,Ichecked one radio station to make sure this is not just temproary.It is beautiful when you have sound and it is excellent when you have it after such a hard work

Congratulations! Well done on your perserverence.

If I may make a suggestion, next time you get stumped, if it is not urgent, do not spend excessive time. Instead make a help request on this forum, and there is a reasonable chance someone may have an idea for a solution. Another venue for support is IRC on freenode channel #suse (where one can often get immediate support).

Originally Posted by nordlibris

I forgot to mention the above, in case Yast did not do the trick. Had to edit that file under 11.0, but not under 11.1 or 10.3.

nordlibris, thankyou for your suggestion to try model=toshiba. With out that recommendation, I would have asked mikerazan to try every possible model configuration for the ALC268, which would have taken excessive time, and would have been subject to errors due to typographical syntax mistakes and frustration. Its always very nice when a user with the same hardware chips in to help. Thanks.

[mikearzan]

Yes ,thank you for the advise.Now this question might be off topic,but if i may ,,as i mentioned at the beginning ,i just got to know linux and suse and basicaly know nothing and even do not know how to do the basic stuff like "how to install the files that i download",,for example i downloaded a flash file for firefox browser and still i do not know how to install it ,there are four different type of files with four different type of installing which i tried all four with the relative instructions ,but still i did not get anywhere,because sometimes after i put my password in terminal ,i receive a line at the end that says something like "have fun ........" but after that again a new line starts with a blinking thing that shows i can not start my session until i put something else there which i always think ,it is waiting for me to put my password again and when i do that i receive this "wrong command or command is not known or something in that nature" which frustrates me .My computing exprience with windows and mac in the past was to do anything with couple of clicks and the rest would be done by the operating system...so,what i am trying to say is : I am really a first grade student who has to start from learning alphabet,....IS THERE ANY LINK OR SITE THAT CAN TEACH ME EVERYTHING FROM SCATCH ABOUT SUSE OR LINUX OR UBUNTU.? including how to know what type of commands i need put in terminal and how to realize when is the time to put a command to begin with.
sorry about taking some of your time with a question which is inappropriate for this topic.thanks.

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by mikearzan

....IS THERE ANY LINK OR SITE THAT CAN TEACH ME EVERYTHING FROM SCATCH ABOUT SUSE OR LINUX OR UBUNTU.? .

I don't know. I've been using Linux for so long, I've long since stopped looking at such sites. But I did start a concepts page for openSUSE Linux, which has been greatly improved by contributions of others in the community: Concepts - openSUSE

Reference installing software, its best IMHO to install prepackaged applications that are packaged as "rpms" (see the concepts link above). But before I can go into detail on that, some basics on openSUSE multimedia, if you let me pontificate a bit (sorry) about openSUSE philosophy. Multimedia as provided by Novell/SuSE-GmbH is mostly crippled for all proprietary codecs. This is because openSUSE is openSUSE. Note the emphasis on open. Novell/SuSE-GmbH try harder than most Linux distributions, to ensure openSUSE adheres reasonably close to the open source free software philosophy, which is to NOT PROVIDE software which is NOT free to give away, and not provide software where the source code is not available, and not provide software which is NOT free to copy, and not provide software which is NOT free to modify, and not provide software which is NOT free to give away modified copies. This means many proprietary hardware drivers, and proprietary video/audio codecs, and many price free proprietary applications (but not opensource free) are not included with Novell/SuSE's open source Linux "openSUSE".

But you can EASILY get 3rd party packages to work around this. EASILY. Setup your Software Package Manger with OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman repositories. Just those 4. No others. None. You can add others ONLY after you learn the risks and problems that exist with the others, and ONLY after you learn how to work around the dependency and other problems that can crop up as a result of adding extra repositories (repos). There is guidance here for adding repos to openSUSE Repositories - openSUSE-Community ... click on your SuSE version and follow the instructions and add ONLY OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman. Just those 4. In particular, do NOT add videolan, as some of its apps and codecs are not compatible with packman and will cause breakage.

Now, you may have figured this out already, but just in case not, I typically recommend, after the 4 repos are added, with your PC connected to the internet, go to YaST > Software > Software Management and change the "filter" to "search" and install the packman packaged versions of smplayer, mplayerplug-in, vlc, libxine1, libffmpeg0, w32codec-all, amarok, amarok-xine. That should get your started. For openSUSE-11.0 and earlier, you will need to remove xine-lib before installing libxine1. Reference flash-player, you should get an rpm for flash-player-10 after from the "update" repository that I recommended you add.