Lenovo G560 few issues

Hello to all Archers! I have few issues with my lenovo g560.
First of all, when browsing for example, the X suddenly freezes and dunno why... just freezes... The only thing that i can do is the force reboot...
2. i have a mute led button which shine all the time, but the sound isn't muted. How can i fix this?
3. My integrated mic is not found by alsa. Fix for this?
Thanx!
PS. On my desktop PC all works just fine, and not for now, but since 4 years. Arch is for me the most finest linux distro. May be i'm not enough  experianced with the laptop issues...

Hello
I got same notebook: with i3, gf310M. So:
1) Same problem here. I've discovered that when you disable desktop compozition X is not freezeing. In my system X freezes mostly when I'm resizing windows
2) Where's mute button?
3) add to /etc/modprobe.conf:
options snd-hda-intel model=asus
options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=0xffff,0xfff2
firs line set's alsa to work with conexant codec and second disables nvidia hdmi sound. after that open gstreamer-properties(part of gnome-media) and select proper mic
Last edited by rzepaczyk (2011-05-29 15:34:26)

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