[SLL] Speaking of on-topic...

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 13:14 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
> I've very recently purchased a new Lenovo T61 with SUSE Linux
> Enterprise Desktop 10, SP1, and I'm quite pleased with it so far, with
> one exception - I can't get sound to work.
> 
> When I use Helix, or view an online video, I get nothing. I've done
> some investigation, and find the following error messages in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jun  7 13:14:00 GrimSqueaker kernel: ALSA
> sound/core/pcm_native.c:2070: snd_pcm_hw_constraints_complete failed
> Jun  7 13:14:00 GrimSqueaker kernel: ALSA
> sound/core/pcm_native.c:1925: BUG? (err >= 0)
> 
> I find nothing in google regarding this kind of message, and searching
> both the Lenovo and Novell web sites yeilds nothing either.
> 
> Does anyone have hints on where I might start looking to fix this?

The alsa mailing lists are probably the best place to get those messages
decoded. That, and/or you might look at whether or not its fixed w/the
SLED10 SP2 kernel. For what its worth, I have Fedora 9 on a reasonably
new (got it in December) T61, and everything works flawlessly.

(for the record, I'm Seattle born and raised, but now living in the
Boston area... :)


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Jarod Wilson
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