[TriLUG] Audio for Linux on my ThinkPad 600e

[Jason Tower]

it's usually good to append info relevant to a particular problem, but 
sending a 100K email to a mailing list should probably be avoided in 
the future :-)

if you haven't tried it yet, try making a knoppix CD and booting off 
that.  knoppix has excellent hardware detection, on several occations 
i've used it to troubleshoot hardware issues and set up devices when 
$DISTRO didn't do it correctly.

jason

On Friday 16 January 2004 13:13, Jesse Aaron Safir wrote:
> Let me start by saying that I haven't seriously messed around with
> Linux since about 1998.  That being said, I am trying it out again. 
> I have loaded RedHat 9.0 on a Pentium II 450MHz IBM PC300PL with
> limited success. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and then Mandrake 9.2 on an
> IBM ThinkPad 600e and most recently I have loaded SuSE 9.0 on both a
> home built AMD Athlon 750 machine with 256MB RAM and on the same IBM
> ThinkPad 600e.
>
> With both versions of Mandrake and with SuSE, I am unable to get the
> sound working.  Both distros knew that it was a ThinkPad with a
> CS4601 SoundFusion Audio Accelerator but the module won't load.  And
> if there's a way to configure what resources it's using, I haven't
> been able to find it.  None of the options for configuring the module
> seem to allow me to set IRQ and memory and DMA and stuff.
>
> I did a Google search on this problem and found that a bunch of
> people have had problems getting the sound to work on a ThinkPad
> 600e.  I even saw an old document on IBM's site about how to load
> RedHat Linux 6.0 on it and how to get the sound working.
>
> Anyway, I don't know my way around Linux enough yet to know how to
> fix it and YaST isn't fixing it.
>
> I could use some tips from the Linux Gurus out there...
>
> I actually have a bunch more questions as I'm trying to get
> reacqainted with Linux after all these years, but those can wait for
> another email...
>
> Here's the dump of my hardware information from YaST: