[Techtalk] thinkpad600E sound

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hi all

im struggling to get sound going on my infamous thinkpad 600E which i 
keep asking about ;-)

doing quite well actually, i've got the new kernel working, 2.5.9, 
everything else is going fine... but i still havent been able to load sound.

2.5.9 has ALSA built in to the kernel - so i've got the right modules 
and everything. below is a forward of a message i sent to 
linux-audio-user with a list of whats going on.... basically it cant 
seem to find the device even though its there. im running mandrake 8.2 
but this is a vanilla 2.5.9 development kernel... i wanted something 
2.5.5 or above because thats when ALSA was added. strangely i've had the 
same problem with my turtle beach pinnacle card on my workstation - 
although it detects and configures my AWE64 fine (so in that case i 
assumed i'd run out of interrupts ;-). the workstation is running mdk 
8.2 with 2.4.18-6mdk .

any ideas would be very gratefully welcomed :-)))

bw

miriam
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hi all
thanks for the help with my thinkpad600E....
i've changed my modules.conf as suggested, which has helped a lot - 
removed all the unresolved symbol errors. but i'm still having problems 
with modprobe:

[root at hamish miriam]# modprobe snd-cs4236
/lib/modules/2.5.9/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: init_module: No 
such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.5.9/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o
failed
modprobe: insmod snd-cs4236 failed

im sure the settings must be right (especially as they're copied from 
another
thinkpad user!)

further exploration shows /proc/interrupts is a bit strange... i cant 
see the sound card there at all: although the two Texas Instruments 
references are my modem and DSP - the tp 600E shares the mwave DSP as 
soundcard and modem dsp... so maybe it *is* there.... (im not good on 
hardware)....

            CPU0
   0:     440012          XT-PIC  timer
   1:      16331          XT-PIC  keyboard
   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
   3:      84425          XT-PIC  serial
   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
   9:         18          XT-PIC  acpi
  11:      44892          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, Texas Instruments PCI1251A, 
Texas Instruments PCI1251A (#2)
  12:     204581          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
  14:      63932          XT-PIC  ide0
  15:          4          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
LOC:          0
ERR:          0
MIS:          0


a check of /proc/devices is as follows:

Character devices:
   1 mem
   2 pty/m%d
   3 pty/s%d
   4 tts/%d
   5 cua/%d
   6 lp
   7 vcs
   9 st
  10 misc
  13 input
  29 fb
  36 netlink
108 ppp
128 ptm
136 pts/%d
162 raw
180 usb
254 pcmcia

Block devices:
   1 ramdisk
   2 fd
   3 ide0
  22 ide1

strangely, sound works fine in windows....
any ideas?

thanks

miriam

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