Sound on D610 laptop

[Chuck Hamilton]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:21:53PM -0400, Chuck Hamilton wrote:
>   
>>    I have tried several Linux distros including ubuntu 7.04 and my current
>>    distro PCLinuxOS 2007. The problem I am having is getting sound to work
>>    through my external speakers when the laptop is in the docking
>>    station.
>>     
>
> I believe the docking station audio-out port does not function
> properly under Linux, while the headphone jack does continue to
> function properly. We've talked with the docking team to see what can
> be done.  But at the moment, what you are experiencing is the same,
> regardless of distributions.
>
> Fundamentally, we need to get some dock-awareness into the audio
> drivers, to enable the output jack on the dock, at any audio
> resolution (e.g. 44.1k).
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>   

I even wonder if a docking station driver would be in order. Something 
that helps linux detect the hardware connected to the ds. What do you 
think? I say this because I've had problems other than sound while 
docked. For example ubuntu 7.04 had problems detecting the monitor 
connected to the ds so it defaulted to a resolution of 1400x1050. Not 
only was that woo small for my old eyes 8-), but I don't the think my 
syncmaster 173b even supports that. It would try to display it but I 
would always lose the panel on the bottom of the screen. It would be off 
the display. No monitor adjustment was ever able to get the whole 
desktop to display. With manual adjustments to the xorg.conf file I 
think I was eventually able to get 1024x768 to work but it would be nice 
if all the hardware connected to the ds would be detected automatically.

Thanks,
Chuck
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