alsaconf? (Setting sound up a Thinkpad600E)

[Christian Wolf]

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 :-)