sound on a 770X

RayG linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 25 May 1999 09:01:57 -0500 (CDT)


i wiped win95 from my machine so i can't remember the exact features of
the win95 thinkpad configurator, but there is a dos version called
ps2.exe, which can be found at ibm's support site under downloadable
files, that lists the assigned IRQs, and does a lot more.

On Tue, 25 May 1999, David Lomas wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:04:38 +0100
> From: David Lomas <lomasd@postoffice.co.uk>
> Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> To: linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com
> Subject: sound on a 770X
> 
> I've worked through most of the bits and pieces getting redhat 6.0 to
> work on the TP770X (13.7"). I've got XFree86 working, and I've
> recompiled a kernel (2.2.9) to try and get sound working. I can get as
> far as running sndconfig and selecting the CS423x driver, but I've no
> idea what any of the IO, IRQ, DMA, etc. setting are that it needs. Do
> these take standard values? I've disabled 'Quick-boot' in the BIOS setup
> to get the BIOS to configure the hardware, but I still don't know how to
> get at the values it used. I do have Win95 on the machine, but sadly, it
> comes as a company standard image which has had Device Manager removed.
> Is there any other utility or method for getting the correct settings?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave.
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