Thanks a mill Cedar. Am apt-getting the kernel right now. Will get back to you once its done

right on

Now this is definitely getting frustrating....I know this cant be good:

/usr/src# tar -xvf kernel-source-2.6.11.tar.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Archive contains `W\320' where numeric minor_t value expected

tar: Substituting `.' for empty member name
tar: .: Cannot open: Is a directory
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Read 8496 bytes from kernel-source-2.6.11.tar.bz2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

oops sorry use this instead

tar -xvjf kernel-source-2.6.11.tar.bz2

I forgot to include the j which is used to extract bz2 files

pretty easy when u know how

let us know how it turns out

:/usr/src# make menuconfig
make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop.


guess am stuck again with the make menuconfig.

you're in the wrong directory...you should be in /usr/src/linux if you followed the step-by-step

It's Working HOOORAYYYYY!!! but I dont know what I did to make it work. I had followed Kano's instructions @ http://forum.kanotix.net/viewtopic.php?t=8646 but it didnt work. While compiling the kernel, I stumbled upon this http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?s...=thinkpad+600e

and I tried to run alsaconf again but I still got no joy. Then I decided to reboot so as to disable quick boot in the BIOS. I did that and lo and behold, I logged in to see a fully functional Kmix. Now I just need to get the right buttons so as to have music pouring out

Thanks a million Cedar

Congratulations for getting your sound working jogi.

Thank you, too, for hijacking my thread.

I'm still lost here people.

what have your results been from the step-by-step?
did the urpmi work for installing kernel-source or did you need to do that? (I don't know if FC3 comes with the kernel-source or if you need to get it.)

Check these two links for how to install and configure a Fedora kernel:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...html#kernelsrc

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-kernel-fc3.shtml

Use the aforementioned step-by-step for what changes to make to the kernel.

Sorry about that.....you might want to disable quick boot in the Bios and try out the steps that gave me luck. Further to getting kmix up, sound was garbled but when I commented out this line

"include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff" found in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, as outlined in this web page http://www.acqualan.com.br/misc/cs4237b.html

I have sound playing smoothly in amorok but xmms still complains bout not seeing a sound card. Dont know if this had any effect,I also enabled system sound in KDE control centre

OK, here's the status of things:

Right now I am having to write to you guys from XP again because my ext2 fs has some errors in it that can't seem to be fixed. At boot time I keep getting pushed to the filesystem recover prompt and having to run fsck and each time it finds the same errors over and over again, even though it says it has fixed them and reboots.

I also noticed that FC4 has been loosed on the world now. I have bittorent downloading that. Since I haven't done much to the system since I first installed FC3, I am going to start over with a clean install of FC4.

I still expect to have sound problems, though, so let's stick to that subject. A few thoughts:

I'm not so sure I want to recompile my kernel at this point. I want to make some other decisions about what I want included and what I don't, and that is going to take some studying of the zillions of modules included in the weighty FC kernel. For now I will probably just want the sound to be an externally loaded module, like I did with my wireless card in another thread recently.

Your instructions look a lot like they use the cs4232 driver which, as I understand it, is the OSS driver, which I don't want to use. I want to use ALSA which, according to Hakan in this thread, uses snd-cs4236.

So basically things are on hold for the moment. Any input for the time being is appreciated. I'll let you know when I am ready to start kicking at it again.

I admire your patience, cedar.

fwiw, I used alsa, and Kmix informs me its Crystal Sound Controller CS423.

Just make sure you have quick boot disabled in the bios. Press F1 during boot to get into the bios. You might need to run alsaconf a couple of times to get it to recognise the card.

Good luck