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

[iriXx]

i've always found IBM's mwavem, written for the thinkpad 600, worked 
fine... that is up until i installed mandrake 9.0 :-/....
its available on the ibm.com support section... it does support devfs 
tho so you should be ok on rh 8...

m~

Paul Kaplan wrote:
> If you're referring to the internal modem, it's a software (or Winmodem) that 
> relies heavily on the underlying OS to work.  There's a site called 
> linmodem.org that may have drivers that you can use to make the thing work.  
> The linux-thinkpad site can tell you what the modem chipset is for your TP.  
> I haven't pursued this problem since I don't use the modem.
> Paul
> 
> 
> On Thursday 30 January 2003 12:58 pm, Angel de Vicente wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>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. It does not complain about no soundcard anymore on booting, and the
>>CD plays beautifully. I couldn't tell you about the streaming audio yet,
>>though: 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?).
>>
>>Thanks for the help,
>>Angel de Vicente
>>
>>
>>>I'd love to hear what you eventually do to get
>>>sound
>>>on your machine and how well it works.
>>>Paul
>>>
>>>On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:28 am, A. Rick Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>>sndconfig is one of the "hidden" packages that are not installed by
>>>>default.  Insert the 1st distribution CD, then go to Packages on one
>>>
>>>of the
>>>
>>>
>>>>System menus.  If you look under the media packages, you'll spot
>>>>sndconfig.  Click on it and it will be added.
>>>>
>>>>Note: these are the general steps, i.e. the algorithm, rather then a
>>>>precise set of mouse clicks, i.e. a recipe.
>>>>
>>>>At 09:19 AM 1/30/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>I got my first IBM Thinkpad, my first ever RedHat (8.0) distribution,
>>>>
>>>and
>>>
>>>
>>>>>I set
>>>>>up to install it. Everything went pretty smoothly, but I have no
>>>>
>>>sound.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>I tried to follow the advice in
>>>>
>>>http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-
>>>
>>>
>>>>>4BP6Q6.html,
>>>>>
>>>>>but the problem is that sndconfig doesn't seem to be in my system
>>>>
>>>(command
>>>
>>>
>>>>>not
>>>>>found).
>>>>>
>>>>>I have never used Linux before, so any help on how to get this done
>>>>>(installing
>>>>>sndconfig, and playing my CDs) would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks a lot,
>>>>>Angel de Vicente
>>>>>
>>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/angelv/
>>>>>
>>>>>PhD Research Student
>>>>>Edinburgh University
>>>>>--
>>>>>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
>>>>>http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>>>>
>>>>-- A. Rick Anderson
>>>
>>>--
>>>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
>>>http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------
>>http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/angelv/
>>
>>PhD Research Student
>>Edinburgh University
> 
> 


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