Linux and me , or you ...

I'm not gong to change my sg line for this or for a while The old 29 is still alive hardware wise bt having some HID issues ...

on to more recwent issues .

Rick I know you' are a bit busy and I have some conversation of a personal nature for you . You have my email somewhere , remind me if I forget . .

Jeff this is more for you . Since we've talked so long ago things have changed but I still refuse to deal with Mi$ter Bill$ nighmare so ..

Linux kop-CF-30CQQACBM 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:12:00 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Hostname: kop-CF-30CQQACBM - OS: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic/i686 - Distro: Linux Mint 16 Petra - CPU: 2 x Intel Core Duo (1000.000 MHz) - Processes: 178 - Uptime: 1d 23h - Users: 2 - Load Average: 0.39 - Memory Usage: 757.53MB/992.74MB (76.31%) - Disk Usage: 5.01GB/80.04GB (6.26%)

*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:47 memory:e8640000-e8643fff

I have audio out of the headphone jack and microphone nput but still no internal speaker That's a problem .

I might as well contribute something whle I'm here .

xset m 8 1

That takescare ofthe mouse thing . To make it permanent add it to start up programs . Different flavors handle it differently so I leave it to you .

If anyone wants to help tackle the audio let me know ...

~kop

 

What mouse thing?

 

"The mouse thing" refers to nearly any linux distro on the CF-29 and CF-30 having a very slow and insensitive mouse pad . Not only that but the usual controls for the mouse available through system setings don't work .

~kop

 

Mouse Pad Tweak from this great post:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/728966-mint-15-xfce-cf-29-any-mark-1-5-a.html#post9334740
Linux loads sound as "muted", try this article for starters:
A User's Guide to ALSA | Linux Journal
This link might prove helpful also:
~Toughbook Talk~ Toughbook Discussion • View topic - CF-29ETKGDKM/NO SOUND/INTEL PRO WIRELESS ISSUES
Best regards
appendum, this worked once for me on a CF-52
~Toughbook Talk~ Toughbook Discussion • View topic - CF-52GCMBEAM Sound/NO sound
Had to install Windows, install the "hotkey" appendix, and shut down, then reinstall Linux...fo figure

 

Thanks, but I have never experienced these problems with Ubuntu. However the information is good to know!

 

Is it a hardware error? Try booting from a live CD and checking if the volume works there. I've had sound break on more than one occasion because of some routine upgrades.

I am not sure if you are using ubuntu or mint. If it is ubuntu, your problem might well be some setting that was misset in the ubuntu gui. otherwise, i would run alsamixer and make sure the speaker is not muted.

oh, and thanks for the xset tip. Works like a charm.

 

I don't dual boot anything . I do have a multi boot machine for work when I can't even show a hint of some commie pinko open source operating system but that’s it .

The only M$hit I have at all is in VBox .

So now for some additional info and tools

http://tinyurl.com/op5w7qb will get you a complete look at the machine via the alsa project script

http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datash.../STAC9200/+0J845AVGwyaTUEhEYtN+/datasheet.pdf is the codec data sheet for the stac9200

Code:

 sudo  apt-get install alsa-tools-gui    

Code:

 hdajackretask

This gets you a gui for re-tasking jack assignments for the HDA_Intel stac9200
[HowTo] Beats Audio HP Laptop speakers on Ubuntu/PulseAudio : linux

It's not a solution yet its just a few more tools to play with .

Just occurred to me . If Jeff or any other has a CF-30 with a working internal speaker , if I got a screen shot of hdajackretask and an attached copy of their alsa information script
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo

Code:

cd ~/
  wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh

I can do a diff on the output or just a "mark one eyeball where did I foo-bar this thing",

If we get this right it won't take the insertion of the recovery disc or drivers to fix . Now I only have 64,000 combinations to try out ...

~kop
sry about the multiple edits but the stream of consciousness keeps flowing

 

So I guess what I really need is someone with LM16 on a -30MK1 that is willing to run the linux/alsa-info script and let me see a screen shot of hdajackretask

~kop

 

I've been running a CF-29H for several years with Linux Debian LXDE and everything worked without too much hassle. I prefer to cook my own WM and GUI so I stay away from most other popular distros and their bloat. Tweaking of the touchpad with xset is definitely "de rigeur" in any case. I just snagged a CF-29N recently and will move all my stuff to that soon. I can't wait!

 

Tech Support Guy - Solved: No Sound on Panasonic CF-30 (F) after Vista Upgrade

Once I had the correct hotkeyapp installad and working I had sound . I continued to have sound after LM17 mate install

~kop

 

Thanks for the xset information.

Did the emails help at all?