No Line-Out Sound on IBM R-51, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS All up-to-date (usb sound works)

[Christopher M. Balz]

Simple as that. Ran the command-line bug-report utility and it brought me here.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: christopherbalz 1332 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: christopherbalz 1332 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'I82801DBICH4'/'Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at irq 11'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981B'
   Components : 'AC97a:41445374'
   Controls : 26
   Simple ctrls : 18
Card29.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 1RHT71WW-3.04'
   Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC 1RHT71WW-3.04'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card29.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Console',0
   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Limits: Playback 0 - 14
   Mono: Playback 14 [100%] [off]
Date: Sun Jul 11 09:53:19 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1RETC6WW (3.05a)
dmi.board.name: 1830AHU
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1RETC6WW(3.05a):bd05/14/2004:svnIBM:pn1830AHU:pvrThinkPadR51:rvnIBM:rn1830AHU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 1830AHU
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad R51
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM

[christopherbalz (christophermbalz)]

Sound via usb (headphones with a usb connector - specifically, Voxlinc headphones) work great. But there is no sound via the old-style line-out.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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