ThinkPad T41p shutdown, mixer volume problems

mstrobel · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 9

I've got Gentoo up and running on my new ThinkPad T41p, and things are working pretty well for the most part, with the following two (minor) exceptions:

1.) When shutting down, the screen goes blank, but the power light and CPU fan stay on. At this point, I then have to hold the power button down for a full 7 seconds in order to power the system down completely.

2.) The PCM volume level in my mixer resets itself to zero every time I boot, so I have to go into the mixer and change it manually. The sound card is standard Intel onboard audio.

Thanks in advance for any insight. FYI, I am running gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1-r1 until the 2.6.3 eBuild becomes available, at which time I will upgrade.

Cheers,
Mike Strobel

ben · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:17 am Post subject:

Hi,

You may have to disable APIC on uniprocessor for you laptop to shutdown properly (this is in kernel configuration). You can have a look at http://www.ontheedge.ch/t40p.html

Sound:
Make sure you have alsa init script starting at boot. Nevertheless, it may come from the fact that the shutdown was not proper.

HTH

Ben

Bombs14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 140

ben · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject:

Well,

As you saw it, this post is more than a year old. Things have changed quite a lot since then and my memory got badder.

Even with kernel alsa driver (i use those too), you need alsa-utils as mentionned in:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml#alsa-utils

Alsa-utils provides the init script I mentioned.

Have a nice day

Ben

Bombs14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 140

oh, wow. Somehow I skipped that step. thanks a bunch!