Solution to Lenovo Y410 Sound Problem On Ubuntu 8.04

Update 30/04: This script will only make speaker work, but not headphone. As Sam mentioned, there is another easy way to get sound work without installing anything: Suspend your machine and resume. The drawback is you have to do it every time after you (re)boot.

Ubuntu Logo Linux jaux.netWell, this is another post about Ubuntu 8.04!

As I mentioned before, Lenovo Y410 laptop’s sound card wouldn’t work out of box on Ubuntu 8.04, which is very disappointing for Y410 owners like me.

Fortunately, we can solve this problem in the same way as on Ubuntu 7.10 and the most intuitive solution I could find on Internet is “Getting Sound to work on your Ubuntu 7.10 installation on Lenovo Y410 Series laptop”. Thanks the author, Ambuj Varshney, for the good job!

The solution is straightforward, but it’s kind of verbose there are too many steps to perform, kind of; so I wrote a bash script to do the job. You can download the script from my box.

After you downloaded this script (y410_sound-20080427.sh), run it as follow:

chmod +x y410_sound-20080427.sh
sudo ./y410_sound-20080427.sh

This script may take a long time to finish since it will download all the required packages and compile the driver, so please be patient.

After it’s done, reboot your Y410 and then you should be able to enjoy your music!

Note: I only tested this script on my Lenovo Y410. If you have any problem while applying this script, please leave comments.


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    Works great!! Thank you!!

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    This enabled the speakers for me, but headphones still don’t work. If I remove the “fujitsu” line from the alsa-base modprobe, the headphones work, but only after a suspend, which is how it was before I ran this script.

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    Sorry. but i don’t know how to run it follow your command.
    i launch the terminal from Aplications - Accessories - Terminal
    and then…
    I download your script into: /media/SETUP/linux in my computer
    and the link of *.sh file is:
    /media/SETUP/linux/y410_20080427.sh

    i don’t know how to run this script follow your introduction.
    I am a newcomer so explain more detail about this. Help me…please.
    i’m using Y410 and like ubuntu so much…
    Thank you for your useful comment

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    @TienLX: Try the following in your terminal:

    cd /media/SETUP/linux/
    sudo bash y410_20080427.sh

    This should work.

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    @Sam: Confirmed. That’s wired, though. I’m going to do some researches on it.

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    I’ve submitted a bug regarding this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/210018

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    @Sam: Thank you, Sam! I think there is no better solution than open a bug for now.

    I’ve submitted a bug regarding this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/210018

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    Vignesh said May 17, 2008, 3:06 am:

    I tried it out on ideapad y510. The sound is working, but there is a problem. The laptop is making a shrill beep which is really unbearable.

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    I tried it out on ideapad y510. The sound is working, but there is a problem. The laptop is making a shrill beep which is really unbearable.

    Since I don’t have y510 in hand, it’s impossible for me to troubleshoot your problem.

    If you want to go back to what it was before using my script, you only need to remove the

    options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=fujitsu

    line in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

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    hello, there is a way for the headphone work?

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