[ltp] Mandrake 8.2 vs. TP 600e

[Chris Stone]

Thanks for that information.

But, could someone explain what OSS is?



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>From: owner-linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com
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>Sent: July 15, 2002 11:39
>To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
>Cc: Chris Stone
>Subject: Re: [ltp] Mandrake 8.2 vs. TP 600e
>
>
>On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 09:02, Chris Stone wrote:
>> My Linux seems to think the thinkpad has a CS46** driver 
>(that's what it
>> says when it probes). On some sites on the internet, people 
>say it's a 4232
>> chipset...
>
>i'm using alsa's cs4236 driver.
>
>> No idea... I think I may just install RedHat 7.x instead.... 
>as it may be
>> easier to configure the sound by following other's examples.
>
>i'm using debian woody/testing (with some packages from unstable/sid). 
>i can provide you my alsa-specific parts of modules.conf, which should
>be distro non-specific.  heck, here it is:
>
># --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
># --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.3b ---
>alias char-major-116 snd
>alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs4236
>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-pcm-oss
>alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
>alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660
>snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
>options snd-card-cs4236 snd_index=0 snd_id=CARD_0 snd_enable=1
>snd_port=0x530 sn
>d_cport=0x538 snd_mpu_port=-1 snd_fm_port=0x338 snd_sb_port=0x220
>snd_irq=5 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=0
># --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
>
>the word-wrapping may give you some trouble.  every line should begin
>with either "alias", "options", or "#".
>
>i have everything working but midi and recording with the built-in
>microphone (and maybe with the external mic jack too, but i've never
>tried it).  anybody have any pointers for recording with the built-in
>mic for the 770x?  i think i have an email saved from this list about
>mic recording, but i don't think it was 770x/cs4236 specific.  need to
>revisit the issue.
>
>whenever i have had problems with alsa (in the early days specific
>versions of alsa just didn't work), i've just let discover
><http://packages.debian.org/discover> "discover" the sound 
>card and load
>the write OSS modules.  currently i have to tell discover to "skip"
>loading the OSS "ac97_codec" and "cs46xx" modules otherwise 
>later in the
>boot-up process i can't load alsa.  disclaimer: i'm running 2.2.20.  i
>don't seem to have anything in modules.conf for OSS, so maybe the
>options are specified by discover.
>
>as far as the mwave modem: i use the mwavem package from debian (that
>thomas hood begun; THANKS THOMAS!).  i don't know what red hat 
>provides,
>but as popular as that distro is, i'm sure somebody has
>compiled/maintains packages for it.  or at least there should be
>instructions for it on ibm's open source site where the (do a google on
>mwave and it'll probably be in the top 10).  the best part of 
>the debian
>package is the mwavem start/stop script.  i did have a hard 
>time setting
>the modem up juggling irqs and i/o (and not just for the modem, but for
>all hardware), and the mwavem modem sometimes goes dead on me, but
>executing "/etc/init.d/mwavem restart" gets it going again.
>
>some day i'll document my set-up, using thomas hood's 600/600x web page
>as inspiration (as a lot of his info applied to my 770x, and was VERY
>helpful).
>
>
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