alsaconf? (Setting sound up a Thinkpad600E)

[michele]

Christian Wolf Wrote: 
> Ok, I am fighting with the beast: 
> 
> On a Thinkpad 600E, Ubuntu Hoary, like all other distros, still (after
> 5 years being a well known problem) uses the wrong driver for sound
> (cs46xx, which is a pci driver, while the T 600e has a cs4236/4232,
> which is in fact a isa-device). Even alsa recognises this fact and put
> a message in dmesg that one is advised to use the snd-cs4236 instead.
> correctly...However, unloading the snd-cs46xx and manually loading the
> snd-4236 module does not help a bit, Ubuntu keeps saying "device not
> found".
> 
> On most other distros, the correct driver can be loaded and the
> necessary modification can be made by alsaconf - however, I dont find
> it on Hoary? Where is it hiding?
> 
> (I have in fact read nearly all of the how-tos, mailings, forum
> messages regarding the sound issue on the T600e - however, it is still
> not working, because I dont get the modules loaded with modprobe -
> Windows gives me a rather funny IRQ10 instead of the typical IRQ5 -
> can it be that the BIOS settings got deleted because I didnt use the
> battery for a while? The BIOS gave me some numers (173, 163) and lost
> the time several times  after I turned on the laptop in the recent
> days - is it possible that the IRQ/io address settings git changed?
> Are the specifications that Windows98 gives me on IRQ etc. correct? Or
> is is fooled about the cs4236 like the lspci which is showing it as a
> CS4610/11?
> 
> Thank you a lot for your patience and help :-)
> 
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Same here.
Used to work with the cs4232 in Warthy, now stopped in Hoary.
I'm sooo tired of it.
I am rather happy that I will have to ditch the laptop soon.

M


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michele