[ale] sound card problems with a IBM Thinkpad 390X P3 450 -- FIXED IT

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Nov 14 17:51:25 EST 2003


It _SOUNDS_ like you have made it work!

Bwahahaha!

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:08, Van L. Loggins wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:52:47 -0500
> ale-request at ale.org wrote:
> 
> I tried running the alsaconf tool under suse 8.2 and after I rebooted my laptop the sound is working perfectly.
> 
> I am more used to Redhat or Redhat derived versions of Linux so I am going to have fun trying to learn how to make suse run properly.
> 
> right now I am trying to get my printer settings working to print to the network printer. :)
> 
> > 
> > Message: 9
> > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:34:44 -0500
> > From: "Van L. Loggins" <vloggins at turbocorp.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ale] sound card problems with a IBM Thinkpad 390X P3 450
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Message-ID: <20031114113444.4bf98c31.vloggins at turbocorp.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> > 
> > > Somewhere in the IBM site is a series of documents dealing with getting
> > > Linux to run on Thinkpads. The sound chips in the older Thinkpads were
> > > some seriously messed up setups. My old 600e worked if I followed the
> > > directions to the letter (something about restarting the sound system
> > > from rc.local with some custom aumix flags?) and those letters included
> > > setting IO, DMA and IRQ as the detected versions were wrong. I believe
> > > that the sound chip was hanging from an ISA bus.
> > 
> > 
> > Hey James, Thanks for the response. I will dig around on the ibm site and see if I can find the documents
> > you mentioned. I think it definately is incorrect dma or irq settings being detected. The sound card works 
> > perfectly on the Windoze 2000 Pro portion of the system install.
> > 
> > I am going to try popping Knoppix 3.3 into the system to see if it detects it properly. if it does I am going to try to write down the settings
> > it used and see if I can configure the system to use them like you mentioned.
> > 
> > Thanks again.
> > 
> > Van
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