[ltp] 600E and sound...sigh...

Andreas Siegert linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:54:48 +0100


Thanks to Jaroslav Kysela of the ALSA team, I now have running sound. It might
work for other distros as well, here is what he told me:

The whole problem is that the ALSA modules in SuSE 6.3 are compiled with
the ISA PnP support and the snd-card-cs4236 module is looking for ISA PnP
cards only by default. Some notebooks have the ISA PnP feature disabled
for their sound chips. If you want to force the non-PnP detection, you
should use the 'snd_isapnp=0' option (described in the INSTALL file).

cheers
afx

Quoting Andreas Siegert (afx@suse.de) on Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 04:45:29PM +0100:
> Hi,
> I do see exactly the same error messages after I upgraded from SuSE 6.1 (don't
> remember which ALSA release) to SuSE 6.3 (kernel 2.2.13) with ALSA 0.4.1d-4.
> I am using a 600. 
> Didn't have time to check it out yet and see why this happens. 
> cheers
> afx
> 
> Quoting Torbjorn Tornkvist (tobbe@bluetail.com) on Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 05:58:58PM +0100:
> > 
> > Hi everyone !
> > 
> > I've been tracking this mailing list now for a while
> > in hope to be able to get sound to work on my 600E.
> > I think I've now tried every possible combination
> > both with and without the Alsa drivers. From Windows
> > the Thinkpad configuration programs say the following:
> > 
> >  0530-0537
> >  0388-038b
> >  0240-0253
> >  DMA 1
> >  DMA 0
> >  IRQ 9
> > 
> > I'm running Mandrake 6.1 which means kernel 2.2.13.
> > As other people has pointed out, sndconfig just
> > say it is a 4610 chip and suggests ALSA drivers.
> > I've installed: alsa-driver-0.4.1f2, alsa-lib-0.4.1e,
> > alsa-utils-0.4.1. and have followed the instructions
> > from Thomas Hoods web-page. When running alsasound
> > I get:
> > 
> >  > ./alsa-driver-0.4.1f2/utils/alsasound start
> >  Starting sound driver: snd-card-cs4232
> >  /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/misc/snd-card-cs4232.o: init_module: Device
> >  or resource busy
> >  snd-midi: Device or resource busy
> >  done
> >  alsactl: Cannot open configuration file '/etc/asound.conf'...
> > 
> > My /proc/interrupts looks like this:
> > 
> >  > cat /proc/interrupts 
> >             CPU0       
> >    0:     307657          XT-PIC  timer
> >    1:       6409          XT-PIC  keyboard
> >    2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> >    3:       3539          XT-PIC  eth0
> >    8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
> >   10:          4          XT-PIC  i82365
> >   12:     115470          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
> >   13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
> >   14:     146366          XT-PIC  ide0
> >   15:          4          XT-PIC  ide1
> > 
> > My /etc/conf.modules look like this:
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc 
> > pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start 
> > alias eth0 3c589_cs
> > ### ALSA sound ###
> > #
> > # ALSA native device support
> > #
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0666 snd_device_gid=0 snd_device_uid=0
> > #
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs4236
> > #
> > alias sound snd-card-0
> > options snd-card-cs4236 snd_port=0x530 snd_cport=0x538 \
> > snd_fm_port=0x388 snd_irq=9 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=0 snd_isapnp=0 \
> > # snd_mpu_port=0x330 snd_mpu_irq=7 # snd_dma1_size=xxx snd_dma2_size=xxx
> > #
> > # OSS/Free emulation setup
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm1-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm1-oss
> > 
> > 
> > keep     # Added by tpctlify
> > path[thinkpad]=/lib/modules    # Added by tpctlify
> > 
> > alias char-major-10-170 thinkpad    # Added by tpctlify
> > 
> > options thinkpad enable_smapi=1 enable_superio=1 enable_rtcmosram=1  # Added by tpctlify
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > If anyone has any ideas on what to do I would be most greatful.
> > 
> > Cheers /Tobbe
> > 
> > 
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