Hey, I'm installing Mandrake 9 Beta 4 on an IBM Thinkpad 600E. On boot, alsa doesn't report any errors and seems to load up fine (I get the correct driver name in parentheses). I don't get any audio, however, and gnome-volume-control says it can't access /dev/mixer. I checked this out and found that /dev/mixer doesn't exist!
Harddrake2 reports the following: Vendor: Cirrus Logic Bus: PCI Bus Identification: 1013:6001:1014:1010 Location on the bus: 0:6:0 Description: Cirrus CS4610/1 CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Module: cs46xx Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO When I click on Run Config Tool and select cs46xx (the only option available) I get the error: Loading sound module (cs46xx) /lib/modules/2.4.19-5mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/cs46xx.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. ... modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-5mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/cs46xx.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod cs46xx failed dmesg gives me the following: AC'97 write problem, codec_index = 0, reg = 0x2, val = 0x8000 AC'97 read problem (ACCTL_DCV), reg = 0x2 (this error is repeated several times) Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or device busy Splashh status on console 0 changed to off PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:06.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0 Crystal 4285/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.28.32, 22:31:31 Aug 23 2002 cs46xx: Card found at 0x50100000 and 0x50000000, IRQ 11 cs46xx: Thinkpad 600E (unsupported) (1014:1010) at 0x50100000/0x50000000, IRQ 11 cs46xx: create - never read card ready from AC'97 cs46xx: probably not a bug, try using the CS4232 driver cs46xx: or turn off any automatic Power Management support in the BIOS. This repeats a few times.. then: cs46xx: cs46xx_probe()- cs_hardware_init() failed, retried 5 times. cs46xx: probe()- no device allocated cs46xx: Unable to detect valid cs46xx device I checked the BIOS and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn off any automatic Power Management support. I don't know how to install the CS4232 driver either.. I get a whole bunch of module dependencies that I don't know how to satisfy. Take care, Onsi
