Port Replicator Audio not working

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#1

I have a Lenovo W520 on which I just installed openSUSE 11.4 (32-bit). Previous to this I had SLED 11 SP1 working fine (with regard to audio in and out of the port replicator) however, with the fresh installation of openSUSE 11.4 I am unable to get audio out of the headphone jack on the port replicator. Oddly enough the audio seems to be coming out of the headphone jack of the laptop itself but nothing out of the jack in the port replicator.

Below is the output of hwinfo --sound in case it helps:

14: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: u1Nb.2XHpwI6nOAD
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
Hardware Class: sound
Model: “Intel Audio device”
Vendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
Device: pci 0x1c20
SubVendor: pci 0x17aa “Lenovo”
SubDevice: pci 0x21cf
Revision: 0x04
Driver: “HDA Intel”
Driver Modules: “snd_hda_intel”
Memory Range: 0xd8420000-0xd8423fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 44 (214 events)
Module Alias: “pci:v00008086d00001C20sv000017AAsd000021CFbc04sc03i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe snd_hda_intel”
Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

25: PCI 100.1: 0403 Audio device
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: NXNs.N__H6sHTVUA
Parent ID: vSkL.uZwZKl9QSG3
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.1
Hardware Class: sound
Model: “nVidia Audio device”
Vendor: pci 0x10de “nVidia Corporation”
Device: pci 0x0be9
SubVendor: pci 0x17aa “Lenovo”
SubDevice: pci 0x21cf
Revision: 0xa1
Driver: “HDA Intel”
Driver Modules: “snd_hda_intel”
Memory Range: 0xd6000000-0xd6003fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 17 (200 events)
Module Alias: “pci:v000010DEd00000BE9sv000017AAsd000021CFbc04sc03i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe snd_hda_intel”
Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge)

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

#2

I’ve never attempted to use a port replicator with GNU/Linux (as I don’t have such a device) so I can not offer any informed suggestions wrt that sort of hardware.

I do know in general in openSUSE-11.4 that installing the application pulse audio volume control ‘pavucontrol’ provides users more insight, and IMHO more control over the configuration of their PC’s hardware in GNU/Linux with pulse audio enabled. Whether that will extend to include the hardware of a port replicator, I do not know.

You could also check to see if the underlying alsa mixer controls have anything inappropriately muted. You can do that by simply typing:


amixer

and if you wish to share the output, paste any output on SUSE Paste press create and post here the URL/website address.