[ltp] Sound on 600e with Debian Sarge distro

[Mauro Maroni]

Not sure about Debian, but in Slackware the hotplug package has a 
blacklist file that let you avoid any module to be loaded by hotplug.
You just need to add cs46xx there.


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Nigel Wilkinson wrote:

> --On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 09:31:25 -0500 Stan Weddington 
> <stan@nleelaw.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have been using Debian Woody on  a Thinkpad 600e for nearly a year now,
> > and finally got some time to re-install Sarge in it.  I originally fussed
> > around with the sound, then left it as un-needed, so never got it working
> > in Woody.  With Sarge, the sound was broken out of the box, but worked
> > -sorta- after installing alsa-base and running alsaconf... for the first
> > time, sound was actually heard from the 600e while booted into linux (it
> > dual-boot into Windoze too), BUT it only played the 1st second or so of
> > sound, then got stuck in a loop like a skipping record.
> >
> > Upon Sarge install the sound system was trying to use the cs46xx driver.
> > Alsa installed the cs4236 driver and I got some sound.  After re-booting,
> > the cs4236 was gone, and the cs46xx driver was back... and sound was all
> > the way broke again.
> 
> Hi, I use Mandrake but had similar problems. You must use the CS4236 driver 
> from alsa (or so I found). This driver MUST be passed options so in 
> /etc/modules.conf you must have
> 
> alias snd-card-0         snd-card-cs4236
> alias sound-slot-0       snd-card-0
> options snd-cs4236 port=0x530 cport=0x538 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0 isapnp=0
> 
> 
> The reason for useing a different driver is that the CS4610 has an 
> emulation of the CS4231/2 and CS4239 cards and the alsa CS4236 driver 
> supports the CS4239 emulation of the CS4610 that is in the TP600E (or in 
> mine anyway).
> 
> As for the reversion to the CS4610 when you reboot, have you got a deamon 
> running that looks for new hardware. In Mandrake 9.2 I had to switch off 
> the hotplug deamon or it always found the CS4610 card and changed the 
> settings.
> 
> So in summary
> switch off hotplug and ensure the alsa driver is passed the correct options
> 
> Cheers
> Nigel
> 
> 
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