Re: [Alsa-user] IBM Thinkpad 600E

[Mathy V. <al...@la...>]

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 06:21, Onsi Fakhouri wrote:

> I tried using Mandrake 8.2 - I've gone through almost all the possible
> modules.conf files available on the internet to no avail!  At one point
> I managed to get all the modules up and running without complaint but
> all my mixer programs complained that they couldn't access /dev/mixer
> (/dev/mixer does exist though).

This probably indicates that the OSS part wasn't running properly. Did
you run the snddevices script ???
 
> I've since reformated and have instaled Mandrake 9.0 Beta 4.  This has
> kernel 2.4.19-5mdk and some version of Alsa 0.9.0...
> 
> I've checked on the internet and the module I'm supposed to load up is
> snd-card-cs4236.  I believe this was distributed with an old version of
> Alsa - the module doesn't exist on my system.  I've been trying to use
> snd-cs4236.  I've manually set the irq and sound port settings with the
> ps2.exe utility.  I've deleted everything to do with sound from my
> modules.conf.  If I try:
> 
> modprobe snd-cs4236 snd_port=0x530 snd_cport=0x538 snd_irq=5 snd_dma=1
> snd_dma2=0
> 
> I get an error and dmesg says:
> CS4236+ soundcard not found or device busy

Are you sure that IRQ is available? And aren't sound cards normally
located at 0x220 ?

> I tried the CS46xx module but can't find the correct options to pass to
> the module (the above options return errors).  If I try modprobe
> snd-cs46xx on it's own dmesg returns:
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:06.0
> PCI: sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
> create - never read ISV3 & ISV4 from AC'97
> Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy

cs46xx works just fine with autoprobe. The only options you can pass to
it are snd_external_amp and snd_thinkpad. But it seems to find a Crystal
chipset on IRQ 11. Perhaps you should try:

modprobe snd-cs4236 snd_port=0x220 snd_irq=11 snd_dma=1 

I don't know what the options snd_cport & snd_dma2 are for, but normally
you shouldn't need those (I think :)

> Please help!! :)

Trying to :)
But don't shoot me if it doesn't work, I never installed linux on a
laptop before. I wish I had a laptop :-) 

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Regards,
Mathy Vanvoorden