[ltp] ALSA drivers on 600E

[manaen]

Mauro Maroni wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I have installed the ALSA drivers (0.9.8) on my 600E. The module cs46xx 
> does not work as far as I know, but I could make the card work with a 
> proper modules.conf configuration using the CS4239 module. Anyways, after loading all the 
> stuff from modules.conf when the machine is booting, it tries and retries to 
> load the cs46xx module as well (not sure why, looks like is detecting that the card is a 
> CS4610 and try to load that module automatically) generating a lot of ugly 
> messages on the console. I am running Slackware 9.1 + 2.4.22.
> 
> Anyone has experienced this and/or knows how to fix it? (basically, to 
> avoid the cs46xx loading)
> 
> Thanks,
> Mauro
> 
Here's what I know I have fought this battle in debian often and am now 
fighting it in gentoo.  The thinkpad 600 series use a non-standard pnp 
implementation and that is part of the root cause of the difficulties 
you are having.  what does lspnp -v return?? how about pnpdump?  do you 
have isapnptools installed, personally I would recommend it.  Also for 
whatever reason the alan-cox patched kernels do far far better with the 
thinkpad 600's pnp implementation (it just seems to work), make sure you 
enable the appropriate isapnp options in the kernel configuration.  With 
the .9.8 alsa drivers after you get lspnp to work you may need to 
manually turn this resource on.  If lspnp -v shows the card but does not 
show it using any resources you may have to "turn on" the card.  In my 
case I did:
setpnp 0e on
setpnp 0f on
setpnp 10 on
setpnp 11 on
Also you may need to disable ACPI in the kernel it wants to share irq 9 
with the mpu401 (this may or may not be a big deal to you depending on 
what you are using this for).  Finally when you do modprobe the cs4xxx 
whatever make sure you pass all of the same parameters that are reported 
under lspnp -v this may not be the same as it is in windows.  I am 
hoping that the 2.6 kernel resolves this mess.  Getting alsa to work in 
the 2.4.X kernels has become very complicated maybe this will get better 
soon.  I know it's a step down but have you considered simply using the 
OSS drivers in the kernel?  Is this simple to do in slackware?  I am not 
familiar with slackware so I am not sure if this answers your 
question...hopefully it will help :-) I am almost at my breaking point 
with this personally.