Linux 7.3 Sound Problem

rwlyons · 02-14-2003, 02:05 PM

Hello all,

I'm new to the list, but I have an issue that I'm sure you can slove. I have an IBM T20 laptop that has the crystal soundfusion sound card in it. I have not been able to get the sound card to work in Linux. I'm using gnome and not KDE.

Any help woud be great

Robert

fancypiper · 02-14-2003, 02:34 PM

Have you configured it yet? Assuming that you are logged into your user account and using any GUI de/wm, open up an x terminal and give these commands (get used to using the command line for stuff in Linux because it's common to all distros):

Code:

[phil@fancypiper phil]$ su -
Password: 
[root@fancypiper root]# sndconfig

If you can't configure it, do a google search for a driver for the soundchip.

# Redhat links
Red Hat Linux Manuals
Maximum RPM
rpmfind
Easier software management: APT-RPM - Red Carpet

# Redhat 8.0 configuration commands
Configure soundcard:
redhat-config-soundcard
Configure X server:
redhat-config-xfree86

rodeoclown · 02-14-2003, 03:17 PM

The T20's sound chip is a Crystal Audio Sound Fusion PCI Audio Accelerator (CS4624). It is supported by the OSS/Free kernel drivers since around kernel 2.2.17. This driver does the proper power management tricks so you can enable PCI Bus Power Management in the T20's BIOS. Be sure to specify the thinkpad=1 option to the cs46xx module.
Put the following in /etc/modules.conf:

alias sound-slot-0 cs46xx
options cs46xx thinkpad=1

Along with that you can make sure regular users have permissions for sound as well by doing this command as root:

chmod 666 /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer*

rwlyons · 02-14-2003, 07:09 PM

Thanks...Sound Works great now...I have one other issue. Can you tell me where Laptop power management can be found in Gnome? My laptop went to sleep and I could not get it to wake up...Again Thanks...

Robert