[Techtalk] thinkpad600E sound

[derek a arnold]

Hi! I have had the same problem for months. As of now, I am running=20
FreeBSD on it but I would LOVE to see the solution to this problem also.

Thanks for submitting it, Miriam.

-Derek

/dev/null wrote:


>hi all
>
>im struggling to get sound going on my infamous thinkpad 600E which i=20
>keep asking about ;-)
>
>doing quite well actually, i've got the new kernel working, 2.5.9,=20
>everything else is going fine... but i still havent been able to load=20
sound.
>
>2.5.9 has ALSA built in to the kernel - so i've got the right modules=20
>and everything. below is a forward of a message i sent to=20
>linux-audio-user with a list of whats going on.... basically it cant=20
>seem to find the device even though its there. im running mandrake 8.2=20
>but this is a vanilla 2.5.9 development kernel... i wanted something=20
>2.5.5 or above because thats when ALSA was added. strangely i've had=20
the=20
>same problem with my turtle beach pinnacle card on my workstation -=20
>although it detects and configures my AWE64 fine (so in that case i=20
>assumed i'd run out of interrupts ;-). the workstation is running mdk=20
>8.2 with 2.4.18-6mdk .
>
>any ideas would be very gratefully welcomed :-)))
>
>bw
>
>miriam
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>
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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 -=20
>removed all the unresolved symbol errors. but i'm still having=20
problems=20
>with modprobe:
>
>[root at hamish miriam]# modprobe snd-cs4236
>/lib/modules/2.5.9/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: init_module:=20
No=20
>such device
>Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,=20
>including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>modprobe: insmod=20
/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=20
>another
>thinkpad user!)
>
>further exploration shows /proc/interrupts is a bit strange... i cant=20
>see the sound card there at all: although the two Texas Instruments=20
>references are my modem and DSP - the tp 600E shares the mwave DSP as=20
>soundcard and modem dsp... so maybe it *is* there.... (im not good on=20
>hardware)....
>
>=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0CPU0
>=A0=A0=A00:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0440012=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0XT-PIC=A0=A0=
timer
>=A0=A0=A01:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A016331=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0XT-PIC=A0=
=A0keyboard
>=A0=A0=A02:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0XT=
-PIC=A0=A0cascade
>=A0=A0=A03:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A084425=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0XT-PIC=A0=
=A0serial
>=A0=A0=A08:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A01=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0XT=
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>=A0=A0=A09:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A018=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0XT-P=
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usb-uhci, Texas Instruments=20
PCI1251A,=20
>Texas Instruments PCI1251A (#2)
>=A0=A012:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0204581=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0XT-PIC=A0=A0PS=
/2 Mouse
>=A0=A014:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A063932=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0XT-PIC=A0=A0=
ide0
>=A0=A015:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A04=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0XT-P=
IC=A0=A0ide1
>NMI:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A00
>LOC:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A00
>ERR:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A00
>MIS:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A00
>
>
>a check of /proc/devices is as follows:
>
>Character devices:
>=A0=A0=A01 mem
>=A0=A0=A02 pty/m%d
>=A0=A0=A03 pty/s%d
>=A0=A0=A04 tts/%d
>=A0=A0=A05 cua/%d
>=A0=A0=A06 lp
>=A0=A0=A07 vcs
>=A0=A0=A09 st
>=A0=A010 misc
>=A0=A013 input
>=A0=A029 fb
>=A0=A036 netlink
>108 ppp
>128 ptm
>136 pts/%d
>162 raw
>180 usb
>254 pcmcia
>
>Block devices:
>=A0=A0=A01 ramdisk
>=A0=A0=A02 fd
>=A0=A0=A03 ide0
>=A0=A022 ide1
>
>strangely, sound works fine in windows....
>any ideas?
>
>thanks
>
>miriam
>
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Derek Arnold
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