[ltp] Sound on an IBM Thinkpad 600E

[Tod Harter]

I had a similar problem when I tried to reinstall ALSA after I'd upgraded my 
kernel one time. As it turned out I solved it (as I recall) by deleting EVERY 
TRACE of my ALSA installation from the machine. That included deleting the 
build directories and pulling all the alsa-driver alsa-oss and alsa-utils etc 
out of the original tarballs. Even "make distclean" apparently left SOMETHING 
cached someplace that screwed up the build process enough that it wouldn't 
work. I also never had any real luck with installing ALSA from rpms. Sadly a 
lot of rpms don't seem to work well when installed "after the fact", esp if 
you don't have exactly the stock distribution kernel etc. Such is the state 
of Linux! 

On Thursday 06 December 2001 19:13, you wrote:
> cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz wrote:
> > A few questions
> >
> > 1) What kernel version are you using?
> > 2) What module are you loading (I think you should be using cs46xx, which
> > has a module parameter called `thinkpad=1'. On my A22m, the need for this
> > module is detected automatically.
> >
> > An an observation
> >
> > Once you do get the module loaded, you may find that you need to use the
> > external volume buttons to change the (master only?) volume on the
> > laptop. Again, this is an A22m, I don't know anything about the 600
> > series.
> >
> > ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list -----
> > The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> > http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html
>
> In answer to your first question, kernel version is 2.4.8.  As for your
> second question, I've tried the cs46xx module (that's what sndconfig set
> up), and the alsa drivers which are what HardDrake tried to set up.  In
> both cases what comes back when I try to load the modules is "no such
> device".  I've kept the windows partition and have been looking at
> resource assignments to the various devices and have tried changing a
> few (both the ps2 utility and the IBM Thinkpad utility).  I realize that
> the various devices are all plug and play but how are the resources
> allocated to the various devices on your machine?
>
> Best regards,
> Arnold

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