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Compaq Presario CQ61-140EI: Sound problem and solution

By admin on September 19th, 2009

I just got a new Compaq Presario CQ61-140EI and installed Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 6 on it. More about that in a future post.  One of the main issues which a lot of people had is that sound works through the headphones but not through the internal speakers which btw is Altec Lansing speakers.  The first solution I found is to add the following:
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
to
/etc/modprode.d/alsa-base.conf
I rebooted my machine and sound still did not work.

After more Googling I found something that suggested replacing the 2nd line above with the following:
options snd-hda-intel model=hp-hdx
Again I rebooted my machine and voola .. sound out of my internal speakers.

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5 Responses to “Compaq Presario CQ61-140EI: Sound problem and solution”

1. New Compaq Notebook running Ubuntu Karmic | The technical side says:

   20 September 2009 at 1:19 pm

   […] want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet BoxAs mentioned in yesterday’s post, I got a new Compaq Presario CQ61-140EI Notebook.  I did not had much choice in the hardware […]

2. saidimu says:

   26 November 2009 at 8:05 pm

   Nice!

   Thanks for the instructions, they fixed the problem.

   saidimu

3. Colin Shorts says:

   28 December 2009 at 4:20 pm

   Hi, this also resolved the lack of sound on my wife CQ61-310SA. Thanks!

4. Wayfarer says:

   21 April 2010 at 3:17 am

   Thanks, that worked for me on my Compaq Presario CQ61-411WM

5. Kompacki says:

   19 August 2010 at 7:25 pm

   Adding this also did the trick for me on my CQ61-400EW after doing “alsa force-reload”.