[ltp] Sound card on Thinkpad 600x. Help!

[Boyan]

Hello,

After an install of SuSE linux 7.1 (2.2.18 and 2.4.0 and Reiser fs) on a
new 600x 5FG everything including graphic,battery management, suspend and
pcmcia works fine.

My big problem is with the sound card. I followed all the recipes in the
suse Handbook to no avail. At first it worked for an hour (with real
player 8) and then KDE froze completely so I had to use the reset
button. After that the sound stopped and I had to integrate it again with
YAST2 and then do configure of Alsa from the control panel. But I get all
the time error messages that start right after booting the kernel and fill
the text console. Here is an excerpt from the mistakes file
/var/log/messages:

"snd: Sound Fusion CS461x soundcard #1 not found or device busy
Jun 14 01:46:20 insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.18/misc/snd-card-cs461x.o: init_module: Device or
Jun 14 01:46:20 insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
incorrect module parameters, iJun 14 01:46:20 insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.18/misc/snd-card-cs461x.o: insmod snd-card-0 failed"

The card is Crystal SoundFusion(tm) PCI Audio Sound Blaster (as in the
handbooks, in the specifications on the internet for this tp model it
reads CS4624 & CS4297A). The notebook is new with PIII 650 Mhz, 192Mb
ram,12Gb HDD (from which 5GB Windows98),DVD rom. I installed both kernels
that suse offer 2.4.0 and 2.2.18 and sound does not work on either of
them.  The sound card itself as a hardware is functional (under win98).
Please, correct me if you suspect some hardware problem.

Your quick answer will be appreciated.

With kind regards,
Boyan

PS. My guess is that I do not qualify for an official software IBM support
since I bought the laptop with windows preinstalled.  It would be nice
though to see some recipies and steps of integrating basic hardware on the
IBM official site. At least for the major distributions and the current
thinkpad models (yes, over here in Europe the 600x is sold as new with
full guarantee and alike). If you know of such an IBM page,please, give me
the link.



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