[ltp] Sound on 600e with Debian Sarge distro

[Michelle Klein-Hass]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 01:33 pm, Stan Weddington wrote:

> OK... what now?

Sacrifice a black chicken, obtained without haggling, at a crossroads at 
Midnight. Boil the chicken until the meat falls off the bones. Drink half of 
the broth, throw the other half away. Let the light of the full moon shine on 
the bones. Then shake the bones in front of the offending ThinkPad 600 series 
computer.

(just kidding!)

Seriously, this is what works for me. My friend Chad doesn't need to use this 
for his own machine...somehow or another he got ALSA to install the right 
driver at the first go. Other people do other things with varying degrees of 
success.

The problem with the 600 series is that there is not one, not two, but THREE 
chips that look like sound cards to Linux. The actual Crystal chip is one of 
them, the mwave is another, and the video chipset has a DSP that can be used 
as sound circuitry if a designer opted to do so.

It's a funky design, and IBM didn't document everything. However, they *did* 
come clean about it to Microsoft. This is why Windows 2000 "just works" on a 
ThinkPad 600, and why we have to wrestle it to work under Linux. And why luck 
has something to do with it too.

Michelle
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