Sound on a Thinkpad 600e W/ SuSE 9.1 personal
 

I've been searching and searching for fixes to this prob and have tried many diffrent fixes for it. I was just wondering if anyone out there has a tutorial for a sound fix for this thinkpad and SuSE that isnt from version 1.0. I have everything else up and running and I love running Linux, but this is gonna drive me CRAZY:confused: . Please help out a Linux newbie,Please
Wavz

I just loaded Redhat 9.0 on my IBM 600E. Everything works fine...........except for the sound :(


So, here's another dude who could use some pointers...
thanks inn advance

Hi ,

Check this site (LQ) , Tutorials > Hardware> Sound on Thinkpad 600e.

Cheers.

with ubuntu i cant get the soundcard to work too , i have already tried the tutorial , but cant get the soundcard to work
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The tutorial is great, but how do I rework the kernel to do this? This is my first real Linux full time computer so I am willing to learn just about anything. Thanks :)
Wavz

Before you do any kernel mods, have you run alsa on it?

I don't use SUSE but Alsa 1.0.5 detected and configured my 600e sound right away.

As root run alsaconf and see what happens, if all goes well then run alsamixer, adjust your setting (volume is off by default), exit and then run, alsactl store .

Give this a go before you mess with the kernel.

Ok tried out the alsaconf, and it came up with "No Legasy Cards Found"
Wavz

ok I also found this on Linux Laptops.

"Sound didn't work and after reading up on the forums-

* I used the CS4232 driver I/O = 0x530
* Irq = 5
* DMA1 = 1
* DMA2 = 0
* MPUIO = 0x330
* MPUIRQ =9

and HOLY COW – it works....."

Now how would I go about checking and if nessesary changing these settings? Thanks again :)
Wavz

Wavz, that would be the OSS driver, which quite frankly sucks. I'll fire up my old 600E later today and post the relevant info to get Alsa up and running.


Håkan

my output at ubuntu is


Setting default volumes...
Saving the mixer setup used for this in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1061: No soundcards found...

===============================================================================

Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

Have a lot of fun!


can anyone help pls?

Thanks Hakan :) This has been one problem I havent been able to figure out for such a long time. I guess all of the explainations Ive seen have been above my head as a Linux newbie.
Wavz

I did find this on the ALSA and thinkpad 600e

ALSA
Late last night I eventually got sound going. I used alsa-driver-0.3.0-pre3 and followed the instructions for compilation. I didn't have PnP support operational in my kernel and "Sound Card Support" is ticked as a Module but no options were enabled.

To get it to compile I had to give the location of the kernel sources and also I symlinked /usr/src/linux to /usr/local/src/linux-2.2.1.

./configure --with-debug=full --with-kernel=/usr/local/src/linux-2.2.1
make install
./snddevices

Note that --with-isapnp=yes was not used. As recomended by Raph Levien, my modules.conf looks like:

alias char-major-14 snd
alias snd-minor-oss-0 snd-card-cs4236
alias snd-minor-oss-1 snd-opl3
alias snd-minor-oss-3 snd-pcm1-oss
options snd-card-cs4236 snd_port=0x530 snd_cport=0x538 snd_irq=5 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=0 snd_fm_port=0x388
alias sound off

and now I can load the sound driver with:

modprobe snd-card-cs4236
modprobe snd-pcm1-oss

Note that you have to read the ALSA trouble-shooting FAQ to find that the second line is needed to get /dev/dsp going. Everything is muted by default.

Also note that performing a suspend (e.g. closing the lid) will freeze the driver, which really limits the usefulness.

this was on This site about debian and the thinkpad

Hope this helps you out with helping me out :) Hakan

Wavz

Do you think that if I downloaded a newer version of ALSA it would help any???
Wavz

I'm sorry, I forgot all about this. I'm burning a copy of Debian Sarge right now so I can play with my Thinkpad.


Håkan

Cool! Cant wait :)