On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:54:41 -0400 Paul Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 October 2002 09:30 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:08:52 -0400 > > > > Paul Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I installed LM9 on a Thinkpad 600. No sound card was detected. Running > > > sndconfig as root I get: > > > > > > No PnP or PCI sound cards were found > > > in your system. Please select your > > > card type from the following list. > > > > > > After trying to manually configure the card and play a sample sound I > > > get: > > > > > > modprobe error > > > The following error occurred running the modprobe program: > > > /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: > > > init_module: No such device > > > modprobe: insmod > > > /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz failed > > > modprobe: insmod sound-slot-0 failed > > > > > > The file /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz exists > > > > > > Sound worked fine on this machine using LM 7.x, but I never bothered to > > > test in 8.x, and continues to work on Windows. > > > > > > What gives. Any recommendations? > > > Paul > > > > What soundcard do you have and is it Plug and Play ? > > You can check as root with pnpdump. HTH, > > > > -Frans > > Good suggestion. > pnpdump returns "No boards found" > Win98 reports that sound is provided by a Crystal PNP card. The sound > continues to work fine under W98. > The IBM documentation reports a Creative Labs CS4237 (I know...my original > message indicates a sound blaster driver, but I get the same general result > with the cs4232 driver, which IBM recommends, as well as several other > drivers.) After further reading, I concur with IBM on the hardware, however > the IRQ and DMA settings under W are different than those recommended by IBM > for the cs4232 driver. > One obvious difference between LM 7.x (where sound worked) and 8.x and 9.0 is > that 7.x used kernel 2.2 where as the more recent distros use 2.4. Do you > know how this might be relevant to my problem? > Paul Check this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@;lists.sourceforge.net/msg04956.html (see http://www.alsa-project.org about changes in module options naming in the rc5 release, in ML9.0 you must use the old names). This site may be helpfull: http://www.linux-thinkpad.org/ Good luck! -Frans
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