On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:21:53AM +1100, David Gillies wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Simon Royal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > I know this is a bit specific, but I have been enjoying Puppy Linux - the > > latest version - on my ThinkPad 600. > > > > My only grumble is I cannot get the audio to work. I have looked on the > > Puppy forums and while there are some solutions I haven't been able to get > > it to work. > > > > I can't really help but I can say that I've had the same problem with my > ThinkPad 600 for years.
I can second this. I've been running a full-blown (as in EVERYTHING installed) version of Debian, with KDE, for years. Sometimes, the sound has worked, mostly it hasn't. Right now, it doesn't, but I think it has something to do with very low level mapping of devices by the kernel. I have had so many irreproducible symptoms after various changes that I've given up. For a while, module cs_snd4231 worked with some hardwired addresses in the modutils config file, but now it doesn't. Alsaconf wants to install the cs_snd4232, which seems to see the device (kmix actually has some settings to configure) but no sound comes out. With cs_snd4231, no mixer. The kmix window (with cs_snd4232) claims it's a 4236 device, but I think 4236 is blacklisted as it causes known problems. Maybe one day I'll get motivated to re-visit this issue, but in the meantime, there's quite a bit written on the web about the 600E sound devices and how to make them work under linux. http://www.linux-laptop.net is a good place to start. I'd be interested if someone gets this to work. A. > I've raised bugs for it against a couple of distros and each time I've had > the bugs closed as *apparently* the soundcard is supported under linux. I > basically gave up and assumed that it was that my card was faulty/I'm > insane/a noob/or something. Its (sort of) nice to know that I'm not the only > one that's been affected by it. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
