Confirm this on a Thinkpad T41 with "Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)" audio device.
Besides the awful static noise I notice that 'alsamixer' has only 3 channels instead of the usual set:
Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 138 [54%] [5.18dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 138 [54%] [5.18dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'BaseFRQ',0 Capabilities: penum Items: '18643' '37286' Item0: '18643'
Confirm this on a Thinkpad T41 with "Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4- L/ICH4- M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)" audio device.
Besides the awful static noise I notice that 'alsamixer' has only 3 channels instead of the usual set:
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 138 [54%] [5.18dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 138 [54%] [5.18dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'BaseFRQ',0
Capabilities: penum
Items: '18643' '37286'
Item0: '18643'