Enable Sound (was: Disable sound on a Thinkpad 600E)

Michele Ravani michele.ravani at gmx.ch
Thu Apr 14 07:33:53 UTC 2005


Keith Meyer wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm running Warty on a Thinkpad 600E laptop, the one with the
> apparently infamous sound card problem. Well I don't use the sound for
> anything, I was wanting to know if there was a way I could disable the
> mixers and the sound card from the bootup process or would that damage
> too much?
> 
> I was planning on just 
> 
> cd /etc/rc2.d/      then
> mv S20alsa _S20alsa
> 
> would this fix it?
> 
> Right now I'm upgrading to Hoary to so I will be working in that when
> it is done. I don't know if it will make any difference though.

Hi

I got sound working on the 600E, but not with alsa and it took a long 
time to find a solution on the net. You don't seem to have the problem :o).
By moving to Hoary sound stopped working ...

Could you tell me how your configuration is?
Does it work on Hoary?

Thanks
   M




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