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Lenny revives old Thinkpad

by JeP — last modified Jan 23, 2009 11:00 AM
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This new year my old laptop gets a new use as a music server and a secure remote terminal. It took quite a while to get the the right settings to use the whole display. Also it was a struggle to get sound working.

It is possible that the card is not activated. First find the id of the card with lspnp -v (part of the pnputils package in debian lenny).  After finding the ID of the card, it is possible to enable the card with:

echo 'activate' > /sys/devices/pnp0/00:[CARD ID]/resources

Finally I altered this script to make it work on the Thinkpad 770E. It can be downloaded from:

thinkpad_pnp_sound.sh

 

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