Audio in Linux on Toshiba Tecra A10
I recently bought myself a Toshiba Tecra A10 laptop, and obviously blew away Vista at my earliest convenience in favour of a Linux Distro. (I’m using Ubuntu on it at the moment, but that may change with time).
To my surprise, everything worked flawlessly except the audio card, which wouldn’t play any sound. I hunted around on the web for a long time, until finally finding a solution to the problem on a Spanish forum. I haven’t been able to find it again to link it here.
Anyway, the solution is this:
Toshiba somehow screw up the audio hardware in the A10 so the normal Intel drivers don’t work. You need to enter some Toshiba specific lines into the alsa config.
Edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base. In Ubuntu with Vi, do the following:
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
Then scroll to the bottom of the file and add the following 5 lines. If it’s less or more than 5 lines, make you format it back to only five, so “options” starts each line:
# LOD: Add these lines to support the ALC268 audio chipset
options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
options snd-cmipci mpu_port= 0x388 = 0x330 fm_port
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=toshiba position_fix=1
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=toshiba position_fix=1
Then possibly reboot, and you’ll be laughing!
I still haven’t been able to get the microphone working, but I’m not sure if thats a driver/config problem, or operator error…