Fwd: Re: [ltp] Linux on ON TP 600x

[Paul Mabey]

Thanks for everyone's replies on this issue...sure enough,disabling the PCI 
APM stuff did the job and now sound works great. Only more more application 
to go (Visio) before I can break away from the wrath of Windows forever !! 
Luckily VMWare helps me out there so no more rebooting :-)

rgds, Paul.


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>Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 22:07:39 -0400
>From: Thomas Porter <txporter@mindspring.com>
>To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
>Subject: Re: [ltp] Linux on ON TP 600x
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>On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 07:05:27PM -0400, Paul Mabey thoughtfully expounded:
> > Has anyone had any good experience with Linux on a 600X? I have tried all
> > the major distributions and each one has its own different problems. The
> > most successful was Caldera EDesktop 2.4 where I could get all but the
> > Audio working. I have found one good website on installing RedHat on the
> > 600X and several on the older 600's but none of them really solved my 
> Audio
> > problems.
>
>Paul,
>
>I am using RH 6.1 on a 600x and after a rocky start I am fine.  Using the
>newest Alsa drivers unmodified.  Biggest thing is that the PCI power 
>management
>has to be turned off, which reduces battery time by a bit.  I did this through
>the Win98 TP configuration tool in advanced APM configuration, I think.
>
>Once I did this, and remember to use the alsamixer to set the sound levels for
>all the different sound devices, it works great: play CD's, .wav's and most
>importantly MP3's.  I believe that Gnome, or Helix, offers a sound mixer panel
>that remembers and restores sound device levels just fine, so I do not even
>need to reset them with alsamixer if running gnome.  I am using the
>modules.conf that loads the OSS emulation portions of Alsa as well, as
>documented on one of the TP 600 pages, and this makes it all work fine.
>
>Since I need to be in a dual boot situation for work and often reboot 
>anyway, I
>have not experimented extensively with sound under suspend or hibernation
>conditions.
>
>I am on a long-term work assignment, and my TP and a set of Cambridge
>Soundworks speakers have turned into my home-away-from-home sound system.
>
>HTH
>
>--
>Tom Porter                                       txporter@mindspring.com
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>'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will
>the right answers come out?'  I am not able rightly to apprehend the
>kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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