[SLL] Speaking of on-topic...

[Kurt Buff]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> 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... :)
>
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com

After much banging around last night, If found that there were two
devices, and that when I switched the device, it worked.

I switched from the ALSA HDA Intel to the Analog Devices AD1894, and
it started working.