Re: SUSE 10.0 on a Thinkpad 600E - please help

Franklin wrote:
> My example was for 2.4 kernel. My inspection reveals that in OpenSuSE
> 10.0 and 2.6.13-15 the modules were named differently. Instead try this:
How do you know that? Who tells you this?

> sbin/modprobe snd-cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5
> /sbin/modprobe opl3 io=0x388

At first the above just produced numerous error messages.

I found this page
http://www.physics.wustl.edu/~alford/thinkpad/600E_FC4.html and
followed the instructions, specifically:
1. Disable "Quickboot" in the BIOS. To do this, Reboot, holding
down F1 key for BIOS menu. Config -> Quick boot -> Disable
2. Add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf

----
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4232
alias sound-slot-0 snd-cs4232
options snd-cs4232 isapnp=0 cport=0x538 port=0x530 sb_port=0x220
fm_port=0x388 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0
----

I went back to YaST which gave the usual message when I tried to
configure the recognised CS4610 i.e. tell me that I need the CS4236
driver. I agreed to let YaST attempt to install and amazingly this time
it did without spitting an error back at me. Yay!

Sound then worked but kept repeating the first second or so of the
file. So I went to the IBM Linux page
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4BP6Q6.html and
followed the instructions for creating a script file in
/etc/rc.d/boot.d/ which is supposed to fix this.

Now I have the situation that if I reboot the computer I have to run
alsaconf for the sound card to work, but it still repeats the sound.
YaST lists the CS4236 as the first sound card but if I click edit the
screen closes and I go no further. It still displays the CS4610 as
unconfigured. If I try to edit and install the CS4236 driver here it
gives me an error re IO IRQ numbers.

I tried your commands above again and both worked. I still have no
sound.

Any ideas?

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