Pradeor, I've done multiple installs on my laptop. (just testing some stuff before I settled down to do work.... conclusion Blue bytes ) (pun intended) and since installing more ram, I needed a larger "suspend" partition. I lost sound during one of the installs myself for some odd reason. Another had sound but in MCC sound card had no info. Now I keep these two lines from modules.conf handy.
alias sound-slot-0 maestro above snd-es1968 snd-pcm-oss Now Mine is a compaq not an IBM but it does have the same sound card. I'd also recommend going to IBM's site as they have some pretty extensive docs on Linux on the ThinkPad. James PS ... to anyone who uses pre DDR ram on their laptop or desktop..... check out the prices on RAM ..... I found a high of $112.00 US for ram on this puppy (Compaq M700) and was able to buy it for $50.00 Pre DDR ram is at rock bottom again so it's a good time to max out. On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:10, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I have an IBM Thinkpad with an ESS Solo1 sound "card". It has worked fine > with most previous Mandrake kernels up to 2.4.18. I recently built and > installed the Mandrake 2.4.19 kernel (with the correct sound settings > selected in xconfig) and find it has totally croaked my sound. > > There is no /dev/dsp, no sound-slot-0, no sound-card-0, nothing. If I try to > run DrakConf and then run the harddrake to resetup the sound card, it fails > because it cannot find sound-slot-0. I have done a system search and > naturally this module doesn't exist. > > I have always used Alsa sound on my thinkpad and it has worked. Now that alsa > has been blended into the kernel, it no longer works. What does it take to > get sound working? > > There are no sound modules getting loaded at all during bootup. "Running > lspci -v" produces this for my soundcard > : > 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive > (rev 02) > Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 1002 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 > I/O ports at 7800 [size=64] > I/O ports at 7850 [size=16] > I/O ports at 7870 [size=16] > I/O ports at 7890 [size=4] > I/O ports at 78a4 [size=4] > Capabilities: <available only to root> > > Yup, there it is. It's just that Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 doesn't see it. > > What arcane trick is now necessary to get sound working again? > > praedor > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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