[ale] sound card problems with a IBM Thinkpad 390X P3 450 -- FIXED IT

[Van L. Loggins]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:52:47 -0500
ale-request at ale.org wrote:

I tried running the alsaconf tool under suse 8.2 and after I rebooted my laptop the sound is working perfectly.

I am more used to Redhat or Redhat derived versions of Linux so I am going to have fun trying to learn how to make suse run properly.

right now I am trying to get my printer settings working to print to the network printer. :)

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> Message: 9
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:34:44 -0500
> From: "Van L. Loggins" <vloggins at turbocorp.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] sound card problems with a IBM Thinkpad 390X P3 450
> To: ale at ale.org
> Message-ID: <20031114113444.4bf98c31.vloggins at turbocorp.com>
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> > Somewhere in the IBM site is a series of documents dealing with getting
> > Linux to run on Thinkpads. The sound chips in the older Thinkpads were
> > some seriously messed up setups. My old 600e worked if I followed the
> > directions to the letter (something about restarting the sound system
> > from rc.local with some custom aumix flags?) and those letters included
> > setting IO, DMA and IRQ as the detected versions were wrong. I believe
> > that the sound chip was hanging from an ISA bus.
> 
> 
> Hey James, Thanks for the response. I will dig around on the ibm site and see if I can find the documents
> you mentioned. I think it definately is incorrect dma or irq settings being detected. The sound card works 
> perfectly on the Windoze 2000 Pro portion of the system install.
> 
> I am going to try popping Knoppix 3.3 into the system to see if it detects it properly. if it does I am going to try to write down the settings
> it used and see if I can configure the system to use them like you mentioned.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Van
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