[ltp] Mandrake 9.1 redhat-sndconfig bug

David .. linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 07 Jun 2003 03:42:18 +0000


I had somewhat the same problem, someone on the list mentioned that i should 
turn off in the bios QuickBoot or something in those lines. once I did that 
my Mandrake 9.1 had full sound, ya it sounds odd that the fix is to turn off 
Quickboot. Don't ask me why that happens.


>From: "David R. Griffiths" <drg55@telstra.com>
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: [ltp] Mandrake 9.1 redhat-sndconfig bug
>Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 12:20:20 +1000
>
>Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I finished installing Mandrake 9.1 last week so I have have a week to
>play
> > with the configuration and experience the features.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Linux Md 9.1 looks great and operates superiorly with out, so far, any
>major
> > glitches appearing. Much much nicer than Md 9.0.
>
>I have a Thinkpad 380z and Mandrake 9.1 ran very nicely on it but I
>couldn't get the sound configured for 4 months (with 9.0 before 9.1)
>
>The CS4237b is not detected, pnpdump shows nothing so can't load alsa.
>redhat-sndconfig allows you to set it up manually.  The test sound file
>worked but Midi and wave would not play, but music cds did.  I got boot
>up error notices no sybthio or synthirq, so tried
>editing /etc/modules.conf directly without success.
>
>After hours and hours, I suddenly thought to install redhat 7.2 which I
>had data on from a web search.  Bingo, the same settings of redhat-
>sndconfig that didn't work in Mandrake worked.
>
>Curiously the only utility which did find the card was lothar
>soundconfig from Mandrake 7.0, but that was earlier than the machine so
>it loaded the wrong driver.
>
>Regards,
>David.
>
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