Lenovo 3000 Y410 Sound: ALSA 1.0.16 WORKS
I got one of this delightfully cheap-ass lappies for Christmas and installed Kubuntu on it. Unfortunately, sound has always been a sore spot -- my primary use for the lappy is on the train, so I need to use headphones and be able to mute the main speakers. While many folks figured out how to get sound working, none of the solutions seemed to be able to get the headphone jack going correctly.
So today, since ALSA 1.0.16 is officially out, I decided to upgrade and see what happened. Lo and behold, *everything* is working. I can:
- Play sound through the Front speakers
- Play sound through the headphones
- Mute/unmute either front speakers or headphones
- Record audio through the built-in mic
- Play the captured audio
Not only that, but the auto-configuration stuff seems to be the best way to configure this. So if you install the latest ALSA and try this, make sure you remove any "model=" options from your /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.
My guess is that any lappy with the Intel HDA hardware ( rev 03 ) and ALC262 codec will probably work like this. So enjoy, and thanks to the ALSA devs for getting this stuff figured out.
December 21st, 2009 - 00:02
its working
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