alsaconf? (Setting sound up a Thinkpad600E)

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michele wrote:

>Christian Wolf Wrote: 
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>>Ok, I am fighting with the beast: 
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>>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".
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>>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?
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>>(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?
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>>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.
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Why not use Warty then??


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