Now, for those of you who are looking at this post, you either:

1. Cant hear any sound on your laptop
2. You hear sound but inserting headphone does not mute main speakers

Here is how I solved the situation. It is nothing new however using this method I managed to get sound AND headphone jack to work. Here goes

First download the latest ALSA driver, libs and utils

Secondly, we will be compiling the ALSA drivers using the directions from the wiki:

I will assume that you downloaded the files to the /home/your_username/downloads directory. Please amend if applicable. Also, we will be creating a /usr/src/alsa directory to install the drivers

Install required tools:

Creating the directory for installation and copying the downloaded files

Compile and install alsa-driver

Compile and install alsa-lib

Compile and install alsa-utils

After that, I edited my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Then add this option at the very bottom

Then Reboot your system.

Like I mentioned at the beginning, alot of you would have seen most of this however this is what I did step-by-step to get ny audio AND headphone to work.

NOTICE: Other websites posts and website ask for you to use options snd-hda-intel model=3stack, however, that will get you audio but headphone jack won't work or it will work without muting speaker. However searching online and in bugzilla's I noticed that there was the same problem for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads and that someone used it on a Toshiba Satellite and it worked. I hope this is helpfull, I have now got ridden of my vista partition and using 100% Linux

Please leave some feedback and tell me if this helped or not.

UPDATE: ALSA 1.0.15 release candidates are out and they are amazing. A lot of work has gone into hda-intel and is working vey well for me. Download it, follow this guide (replace 1.0.14 with whatever version you download) and DONT edit your alsa-base file (/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base)

UPDATE2: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE use the new ALSA drivers (1.0.15) as they are very stable and you do not need to edit your alsa-base conf file.

UPDATE3: I have tried Hardy Heron and i found that you do not need to do any of this as it has the alsa drivers installed. However, I am willing to help if there are problems with the new OS. Also, the new drivers are 1.0.16, try that.

No, when I plug the headphones in the sound still comes out of the speakers. When I first installed Feisty the sound did not work at all. I very rarely use headphones so it is a non issue.

I have read that if you re-compile the ALSA drivers then the headphones thing will work.

nice

went step by step and got nothing still

im using xubuntu and my mixer settings are now empty?

i can't believe you have to do this much stuff just to get the sound to work


does it matter what Toshiba satellite a135 model you have? i have a a135-s2246

any help would be great.

Hmm mrbungle, i tried it on xubuntu and it worked for me.

First, make sure you have rebooted, as that is essential. If that didnt work, try the following

If options snd-hda-intel doesnt work for you try either
OR

Which chipset is this? Realtek? SiS?

Thank you very much for this! We just picked up a A135-s4666 and this worked good for getting the sound working. I used ndiswrapper for the Atheros wireless and that works beautifully. Suspend/resume works perfect too.

Just got that exact model, atheros worked out of the box with 7.04, What benefit do you gain from ndiswrapper?

I dont feel like compiling the drivers, so I am jumping to gutsy and see if the newer versions of alsa have the new drivers worked in, if not Ill do it by hand.

thanks for the guide, nice to know it can work.

Just FYI. The new kernel/alsa version is gutsy(7.10) support the sound card without any workarounds. Almost every feature of this laptop now works out of the box, exception being the media controls.

I find the best solution is this:

I have the same laptop as you do and the soundcard on that one is not an Intel ICH7, it is an ATI SB450 sound card.

I get my sound to work using this:

http://www.stchman.com/feisty_tips.html

It was relatively easy. I downloaded the Tribe 4 of Gutsy and everything works out of the box.

I couldnt find a folder for the "lib " in extracted to the driver folder only. there was no need to install there . I got already installed with the driver , i got it working with the rest of the step 1f40 s

Inxmomo said :
"After that, I edited my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base"

Hi Inxmomo, I have tried all the commands you have mentioned but when i came to the last one that you have edit, that I have put above, it said
" sudo: gedit: command not found" so will you please let me know what should I do. I also have a stallite a135.

Thanks in advance

If you are not running gnome you dont have gedit. If you ahve kde subsitute "kate" instead. Or use "sudo nano ...."

Thx Dr. Nick.
The music cd is working now however there is no sound for the websites like youtube or any others that I can watch or listen to things. Do you have any suggestions?

I really appreciate your help

I have headphone functionality now

thing is, I'm not sure if these instructions are the ones that fixed it since after doing all the steps it still didn't work but I had to enter Kmix and activate de Headphones in Switches (didn't do it before).
But I guess the steps in this topic must have erased any fixes done previously to get audio in the first place, so they must work from scratch.

Thought you'd like to know that it works on a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4677

but the headphones don't mute the speakers... tried the three options (lenovo, 3stack and auto). But the volume in the headphones is larger (and if not there's the boost) so I can set the speakers to a low volume.

oh yeah, the headphone's sound control in kmix is listed as the Front Mic.

Also for the n00bs (like me a couple days ago) is good to remark that Kubuntu doesn't have gedit, so use kate instead. the console gives a lot of error messages but it still edits the file.

thanks

Does anyone know why I cant hear the sound on internet (in youtube or music websites) but I can when I play a music cd.How can I fix this problem? Anyone?

If you can play music cds then your sound card is working and you dont need to follow the steps in this thread. If youtube sound doesnt work then search the forums for "no sound in flash" or similar.

Just wanted to say thanks. I followed the instructions in the original post and fixed my headphone problem. I need to use my headphones all the time so this is a huge help. Now I can stop using Vista!

Hi

I get as far as ./configure for the utils and get the following error:

checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.12... not present.
configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.

I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Dude, you rock. I recall looking at this back when I installed Feisty, and of course, when I installed Gutsy I had the same problem. - Your solution I'll bookmark and do the dead. I did use the "Quick Fix" but found that while I had sound, it was just that, a quick fix.

Dude, (or dudett) I'll be happy to bring you a coffee....

Gutsy Seems to have broken this fix for Toshiba a135-s4727. I have worked on two of this model and two of the 4527 as well as a 2234. But so far only the models ending in 27 have broken.

But after allot of searching I finally found a solution download and install the realtek High Def Driver for linux.


http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/

However the only way I and several others have made this work is as follows.

1. Start with a fresh install of Gutsy (k,u,x which ever you like)

2. Run the first update with your package manager do not install other software. (except a compiler if needed)

3. install the Realtek High Def Driver (or as realtek calls it "codec")

This will install the alsa drivers (1.0.14), your sound wheel will seem to work (1-100%).
Each program will control its own volume level.

Note: If you have already done the driver install steps above and it didn't work in gutsy I will say the only way this realtek driver has work for us is a fresh install.

If there is another way that makes every thing work in gutsy please let me know.

This worked great on my A135-S4427. Thanks.

No good
the Gutsy has broken this fix for my A135-S4677.
It didn't work on an "unfresh" install so I went through the process of reinstalling it. but still no good.
Followed the steps posted here (did need to install ncurses and uname to compile, and in the first upgrade couldn't add samba)

please help if you find another fix

P.S.: went through the whole thread again and read some of you say that it's not broken for gutsy anymore, just that it still needed the line at the end of /etc/modprobe/alsa-base . tried this (and the whole fix with the .15 drivers) and it still doesn't work...

oh well... gave on ALSA (didn't even know it was an option before) and welcomed the OSS.
worked for my Satellite A135-S4677 with Gutsy
here's the walkthrough
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...14#post3768914
good luck
btw, I need a way to get kmix (or an alternative) to respond to the volume wheel.

Thanks man, I looked around and couldn't find an answer, then it suddenly dawned on me, that re doing the alsa install worked last time... then I found this... Just thought I'd say thanks because in all consideration, this should work in most, if not all HDA Realtek Intel based toshiba's and similar laptops.

For the record, I am running an A105 S4034

Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) By Realtek of course...

ok I dont know if someone one else have posted it here before me.
but when I red the thread I felt like letting you know
There is one more way to mute the speakers when you plug in the headphones but you will need to do EVERY TIME AND UNDO IT :P

Terminal

aslamixer

then you go to external and press m for mute and the sound of the speakers is off
when you take off your headphones you have to undo it.

Well it is not the best thing to do but it work if you dont have to mess up alot in updates ect :P


PS. my speakers and mic where working just fine until tonight when I did something the alsamixer (I don;t recall what I did so I think that if you put in the correct setting in alsa it will work just fine)

@ Lnxmomo--

YOU ROCK--

I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4427 and I have tried all the other howto's I could find... This is the only one that worked!! Thanks!!

-Huckem

P.S.--This is using Gutsy (knl 2.6.22-14-generic)

Thanks for your post!

I have a A135-4637 here, with Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family).

I have installed the 1.0.15 Alsa version, and preserved the original configuration file. The sound is working (as it did before with the Lenovo configuration suggested), but the speakers do not mute if I plug the headphones.
I haven't tried to plug a mic yet.

Any suggestions?

hi there,
THANKS A LOT!
I have 'Toshiba Satellite A135-S4499 laptop' with
soundcard :
Vendor : Intel Corporation
Device : 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller

This is the only way my sound card came to life on ubuntu gutsy!

Thanks a lot.
I got the same problem with sound ufter linux-headers update on a PC not notebook.
Now it is solved.
The only difference is I did not specify anything for the alsa-driver configure, since it is not intel, but amd and a usual comp.

Hi

Nice to see this works for people. Sorry to those who use KDE as i did not mention to use kate instead of gedit. Maybe next time i will use something universal like nano.

Please note: after using this guide i did a fresh install and decided to use the newer alsa base (1.0.15) release candidates. A lot f work has been put in into HDA-Intel, the soundcard we use in our laptop and it fixed alot of things. Bugs even you have not noticed. I did not even neede to edit my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file.

Hopefully the newer alsa will be available in gutsy.

Confirmed here from behind a noisy Toshiba A200-1CJ, model PSAE0E. No need to compile the drivers when running Gutsy Gibbon.

I have sound when i play music CDs but when I open youtube there is no sound. I searched as "no sound in flash" and tried almost every codes I could find but still I dont have sound 1f40 in youtube or any other websites that have videos or broadcasting radios. Will you please help me with this problem. I use Kubuntu 7.04 Since I am very very new to Linux I dont know if that will make any difference.
thanks in advance for your help

I followed these instructions and substituted the 1.0.15rc3 files... it seemed to have complied and installed properly, but now alsamixer gives an error message:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

and I get a non-existent listing for sound cards using "asoundconf list"

I have a Toshiba U305 laptop with:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

I guess I still need some help. I am updated from 7.04 Feisty to Gutsy. My sound has never worked since clean install of Feisty. I am not going back to MicroShaft, so please... Help???

The speaker/volume icon now has a red circle with a line through it. I have no sound for CDs or .ogg or web-based sound. I have tried these instructions on Feisty, updated Feisty, Gutsy beta, and now the newly released Gutsy. The sound preferences app (gui) used to list HDA device, and now lists absolutely nothing. I guess change in the wrong direction is better than no change

Anyway,
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Namaste,
Matt

i had tried forever to get sound to work under linux on my toshiba satellite a105-s2141 finally did it using this walk through, all i had to change was lenovo to auto on the last step.

Thanks for a great post. I've got a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4487 and now have the sound and he 1f40 adphones working. After building the latest ALSA version 1.0.15rc3 following the instructions above, I did still need to add

to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.

The headphones are working, with the front speakers muted; however, its a bit fragile. I can't have the front volume all the way down, it must be partway up and muted. Also if I adjust the volume wheel, the front speakers unmute. Anybody know if this is typical behaviour ?

This is great. I have an A135-S4656 and this worked first time out. Also managed to install the mplayer and its plugin in Firefox, and I am listening to my fave radio station.

S.

I got my SB450 card working using this guide and the 1.014 drivers

Thank you!

Gutsy is no longer broken

I was in the same boat! I've installed Gutsy from scratch 2 times. This FINALLY did the trick.

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Then add this to the bottom of the file

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

Thanks, JT

Larry