[ltp] Sound on Thinkpad 600

[JP Shipherd]

> OK, I'm afraid I use Mandrake 10.1 and found that alsaconf ( in the 
> als-utils-1.0.6 package ) recognised the card and the fact that it was a 
> TP600 and need to use CS4236 emulation and set it up out the box. The 
> config tool you tried was probably sndconfig which I've always found to 
> have problems with the TP600.

I'm definitely getting the message that the distro I'm using isn't the best.
Since you are the first person whose said that it worked "out of the box"
for them I'm willing to try yours if I can't muddle through with what I've
got in the next few days.  Can you send me a pointer to where I should look
for it?

Also, I chose Redhat just because I'd heard it was fairly easy for someone
who had never used Linux before.  Does Mandrake come with a windows manager
like gnome so someone with little linux experience can poke around?

Thanks,
--jp