[ltp] ALSA drivers on 600E

[Mauro Maroni]

Finally I could resolve it adding snd-cs46xx to /etc/hotplug/blacklist as 
no longer tries to load that module at startup.

Thanks anyway







On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, manaen wrote:

> 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.
> 
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