[ltp] old-ish Thinkpad 310 + linux + no sound?

[Matt Graham]

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 15:43, after a long battle with technology, 
Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 20:00:41 +0100
> "Atwood, Robert C" <r.atwood@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I have rehabilitated an oldish IBM thinkpad , model 310,  with a
> > newer hard drive and Gnu/Linux OS (based on redhat 9) except I 
> > cannot get the sound device to work
> If you're using Red Hat 9, can the "sndconfig" utility detect the
> card? If not, that model seems to have been advertised as having
> Soundblaster Pro support

If the marketing says "Soundblaster compatible", that means *nothing*.  
Nothing at all.  It's almost certain that the sound card is on the ISA 
bus, which makes things difficult.  The Thinkpad 310 is not listed on 
linux-on-laptops.com or tuxmobil.org.  There is a brief web page at 
http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~chongss/thinkpad310ed.html which says the 
soundcard is an OPL3-SAX card, but doesn't go into any details about 
which modprobe commands were used.  I checked 
through /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/OPL* for details , but it's 
kind of murky.  Read those files yourself and try the commands they 
suggest--don't know what else to try.  HTH,

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