[Bug 41990] obscure alsa ThinkPad 600 input/output error

[Robert McMeekin]

Public bug reported:

Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
robert at elephant:~$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/startup.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/startup.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
aplay: pcm_write:1222: write error: Input/output error

That above is why I am filing this bug report.  I cannot play any sounds
or record sounds, though I can use alsamixer to make it so that I can
hear myself talking into the microphone and cause a lot of feedback.

robert at elephant:~$ uname -a
Linux elephant 2.6.15-21-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Apr 21 16:57:03 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Before I upgraded to dapper I was using the OSS cs4232 module because I
did not want to read about how to configure alsa.  That driver is no
longer available though it seems so I am using snd-cs4236 by adding the
following to rc.local (probably not the right way, but it seems to load
without errors, which should be a bug because it doesn't work):

## setup the sound card
setpnp 0e on && setpnp 0f on && setpnp 10 off || exit 1
OPTIONS="index=0 isapnp=0 port=0x530 cport=0x538 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0"
modprobe snd-cs4236 $OPTIONS || exit 1

AFAIK my system is as updated as possible as of this time of this
writing.

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obscure alsa ThinkPad 600 input/output error
https://launchpad.net/bugs/41990