[ltp] Newbie --- Thinkpad 600, Redhat 8.0, Sound?

[Charles E Taylor IV]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:58:13 +0000 (GMT)
Angel de Vicente <angelv@dai.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> somehow I managed to stumble on a solution. I installed sndconfig, run
> it, when selecting the CS423X card and trying to play the sample files,
> well, it didn't. I gave up, hoping that it would play the CD anyway,
> and, it does.

You shouldn't even have to have a sound card driver installed to play the
CD.  Do you get any sound from (for example) xmms?

If not, you'll probably need to do a few things:

1) In easy setup, disable quick boot.
2) When you run sndconfig, try some different IRQ/DMA settings.  io=0x530
irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5 seem to work here.
3) Don't reboot from Windows and expect it to work.  Turn off the machine
before booting into Linux. :)

> I still have to see if the modem is working
> fine, I hear this is another usual weak point in the thinkpad-linux
> setting (any help on installing this?).

An oddity - if your soundcard is *not* working, you'll be able to hear the
modem dial out.  If your soundcard *is* working, you won't be able to hear
the modem.  Weird, but verifiable on two 600-series machines and two
77o-series machines.

By the way, since you have Redhat 8.0, go to http://freshrpms.net and
install apt for RPM.  Then you can install/update your software
(in particular, the media players will need updating to play mp3s)
painlessly.

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