[ltp] tp 600E + sound: HELP!!!

[Mauro Maroni]

I will send you my config later today...I am not at home now.
Mauro

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, davide wrote:

> Hi everyone
> I'm trying to get sound work with an old thinkpad 600e type 2645-3A0.
> I've got a fat16 partition with win95 on it (the sound works with this)
> then I've got a slackware 9.1 and a red hat 9b. both the linux systems
> can't get sound working.
> Win95 is setted like this:
> Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC i/o= 0x530, 0x388 and 0x220 irq=9 dma=3,1
> Crystal PnP Audio System Control Registers i/o=0x538
> Crystal PnP Audio System joystick i/o=0x200
> Crystal PnP Audio System MPU-401 Compatible i/o=0x300 irq=5
> Crystal SoundFusion(tm) PCI Audio Accelerator irq=11 iomem=50100000,
> 50000000
> Crystal SoundFusion(tm) Virtual MPU-401 i/o0x330
> 
> the thinkpad configuration prog in win95 doesn't find a file it needs
> and crashes, so I've installed ps2.exe under dos. ps2 ? audio returns:
> 
> enable
> address   530
> irq       9
> SBaddress 220
> dma       1 3
> 
> ps2 ? audioctrl returns:
> 
> enable
> address 538
> 
> I'm running a 2.4.26 kernel on slack and default (vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9)
> on red hat. lspci returns:
> 
>  ...
> 00:06.0 Multimedia Audio Controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4610/11
> [CrystalClear Soundfusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
>  ...
> 
> the kernel tryes to make a pnp initialization but it doesn't find any
> pnp device (isa or pci). It seems the kernel can only find the pci 
> accelerator (as win95 call it) and it can only insmod the gameport 
> (cs461x + gameport).
> I tried with OSS modules in many ways but the kernel always writes in 
> /var/log/messages and in dmesg: no init_module found.
> I tried a softboot with loadlin whithout success.
> I tried using alsa and reading the documentation I found this:
> 
> # An other Example: IBM ThinkPad 600E with an CS423x emulated by an
> CS4610/11
> # In this case, the native PCI Sound is expected to not work, but some chips
> # like the CS4610/11 have a very good emulation for older ISA non-PNP cards
> # like the CS423x family. The CS4610/11 e.g. has an good emulation of the
> # CS4231/2 cards and the CS4239 card, the snd-card-cs4236 e.g. supports the
> # CS4239 emulation of the CS4610/11 in the IBM ThinkPad 600E:
> #
> # alias snd-card-0         snd-card-cs4236
> # options snd-card-cs4236 index=0 snd_port=0x530 snd_cport=0x538
> snd_irq=5 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=0 snd_isapnp=0
> #
> # You MUST suppy all required snd_port, snd_irq and snd_dma parameter AND
> # the snd_isapnp=0 option to the snd-card if the card is not shown by
> pnpdump,
> # otherwise the ALSA driver will try to do PnP and will not find your card.
> #
> # This is an example of an post-install you may want use:
> #
> # post-install snd amixer set Master 100% unmute;amixer set PCM 100%
> unmute; amixer set Aux,1 100% unmute
> # (Aux,1 is the CDROM line-in in this ThinkPad 600E)
> #
> # For more info about the powerful amixer look into "man amixer".
> #
> # This will open your mixer channels in case you did not store a mixer setup
> # for your card in /etc/asound.conf and you will have a default
> configuration.
> # To test your new setup, do:
> #
> # depmod -a
> # rcalsasound restart
> #
> # If the modules were loaded, you can check them with lsmod.
> #
> # Open and unmute the mixer channels, e.g. with alsamixer, gamix or your
> # OSS mixer (alsamixer: unmute the Master and PCM channels with ",." and
> # raise them with the up/down-arrow keys, man alsamixer explains all the
> keys)
> #
> # To play a sound sample run:
> #
> # aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/whistle.au
> #
> # For a list of supported soundcards look into
> # /usr/share/doc/packages/alsa/cards.txt
> # and browse the other files there and www.alsa-project.org
> # for more information.
> 
> so my /etc/modules.conf is
> 
>       # ALSA portion
>           alias char-major-116 snd
>           alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
>           options snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 index=0 cport=0x538 port=0x530
> mpu_port=0x300 mpu_irq=7 sb_port=0x220 fm_port=0x388 irq=9 dma1=3 dma2=1
>       # OSS/Free portion
> #        alias char-major-14 soundcore
> #        alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> 
>       # card #1
>           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
> 
>           alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
>           alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
>           alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
> 
> typing modprobe snd-cs4236 I get a kernel panic (how can I write the 
> otput of a kernel panic to a file? "2>error.txt" doesn't work).
> 
> In the web I found many people who got sound working on a tp 600e. Why I 
> can't? Where am I wrong?
> Thanks to all
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