Comment 3 for bug 190393

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William Pitcock (nenolod) wrote : Re: [Bug 190393] [NEW] Fix for Speaker swtich not on by default with Thinkpad T61/X61

Hi,

Please submit patches against the debian source: debian/alsa-utils.init
in the future. Thanks.

William

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 07:49 +0000, Jerone Young wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: alsa-utils
>
> On Thinkpad T61/X61 or any other notebook using the AD1984 sound card.
> There is a lot of confusion as no noise comes out of the speaker even
> though PCM is at Maximum volume. The issue here is that the AD1984 now
> has a switch for "Headphone" & "Speaker". But having this switch cut on
> in the init script this resolves this issue and has sound coming out of
> the speakers & head phone jack.
>
> Has been tested and will finally have these just work on Thinkpad T61.
>
> This clears up a lot of issues, just googling around you can see users
> need this problem fixed.
>
> This patch is for "/etc/init.d/alsa-utils":
>
> Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <email address hidden>
>
> --- /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.OLD 2008-02-09 01:17:09.000000000 -0600
> +++ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils 2008-02-09 01:49:27.000000000 -0600
> @@ -161,6 +161,10 @@
>
> mute_and_zero_level "Mic"
> mute_and_zero_level "IEC958" # Ubuntu #19648
> +
> + # AD1984 -- Thinkpad T61/X61
> + switch_control "Speaker" on
> + switch_control "Headphone" on
>
> # Intel P4P800-MX (Ubuntu bug #5813)
> switch_control "Master Playback Switch" on
>
> ** Affects: alsa-utils (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>