[solved]tail -l invalid option. Audio on thinkpad x120e

Question

so I am trying to get audio to work. I looked at the wiki for it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBM_ThinkPad_X120e
this is what it says:
$ tail -1 /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
options snd-hda-intel index=1
error:
[hei@myhost ~]$ tail -1 /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf options snd-hda-intel index=1
tail: option used in invalid context -- 1
I have pulseaudio and alsa installed.  I checked the man of tail and l is not an option.Not sure what to do here.
edit: if this option is -1 then  i still get an error.
hei@myhost ~]$ tail -1 /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf options snd-hda-intel index=1
tail: option used in invalid context -- 1
Last edited by cirnOS (2011-08-26 21:26:05)

Answer 1

anonymous_user wrote:Type just "tail -1 /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf". Do not add anything else.
I figured that. Here is the input:
[hei@myhost ~]$ tail -1 /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
snd-hda-intel index=1
this is what i see in alsamixer ( with the exception of the hdn-intel card):
[hei@myhost ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
HD-Audio Generic at 0xf0244000 irq 45
1 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xf0240000 irq 16
29 [ThinkPadEC ]: ThinkPad EC - ThinkPad Console Audio Control
ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw unknown
I can't choose the intel option for sound. If it does help I do have pulseaudio installed so im not sure if that is conflicting. With the speakertest -c 2 I can hear my speakers output the static like noise...
edit: I just removed pulse audio. My issue now is not being able to select the default intel audio card so I can hear audio.
[hei@thegate ~]$ mpd
listen: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in use (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded)
output: No "audio_output" defined in config file
output: Attempt to detect audio output device
output: Attempting to detect a alsa audio device
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
alsa: Error opening default ALSA device: No such file or directory
output: Attempting to detect a oss audio device
oss: Error opening OSS device "/dev/dsp": No such file or directory
oss: Error opening OSS device "/dev/sound/dsp": No such file or directory
output: Attempting to detect a pulse audio device
Assertion 'm' failed at pulse/thread-mainloop.c:172, function pa_threaded_mainloop_lock(). Aborting.
Aborted
Last edited by cirnOS (2011-08-24 03:25:59)