Re: [Alsa-user] Repost: Desperately seeking thinkpad help (600e)

[Frans K. <ket...@wa...>]

Joshua Rochester wrote:
> 
> I got some responses that the problem was the
> modules.dep error (thanks, guys!) but that does not
> appear to have anything to do with it. With depmod -a
> run, I still get the following results:
> 
> # modprobe snd-card-cs4236
> /lib/modules/2.4.6/misc/snd-card-cs4236.o:
> init_module: No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module
> parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.4.6/misc/snd-card-cs4236.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.6/misc/snd-card-cs4236.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.6/misc/snd-card-cs4236.o: insmod
> snd-card-cs4236 failed
> 
> The card works (though it doesn't actually play sounds
> correctly) under OSS.
> 
> Help greatly appreciated.
> 
> Josh
> 
> --- Joshua Rochester <pr...@ya...> wrote:
> > I've been trying for a week to get the alsa drivers
> > to
> > work on my Thinkpad 600e (cs4239) running RH7.1.
> >
> > I've got the drivers compiled and installed. The
> > kernel has sound support. My modules.conf looks
> > like:
> >
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs4236
> > options snd-card-cs4236 snd_irq=5 snd_dma1=1
> > snd_dma2=0 snd_isapnp=0 snd_mpu_irq=9
> > snd_cport=0x538
> > snd_port=0x530 snd_mpu_port=-1 snd_fm_port=0x388
> > snd_mpu_irq=-1

[...]

Ummm, you have:
snd_mpu_irq=9
snd_mpu_irq=-1
snd_mpu_port=-1 :)

Why don't you let the 2.4.x kernel or ALSA sort out ISA PnP problems
(instead of using snd_isapnp=0 and io/irq parameters) ?

Your snd_cport and snd_port seem out of range according to the
INSTALL file downloaded from the ALSA site (but check the INSTALL
file in your ALSA driver directory).

    -Frans