Laptops :: sound Thinkpad 600



Maybe this will help...

My guess is you may need to rmmod soundcore or rmmod sound BEFORE
trying this...   look at "lsmod" to see if either one is already loaded..

This is all done as the root user..

This may help wetterau as well, since he had ad1848 issues..
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From : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/02/msg00142.html

> Crystal CS4232 and CS4236 based cards such as AcerMagic S23, TB Tropez _Plus_ and
>         many PC motherboards (Compaq, HP, Intel, ...)
>         CS4232 is a PnP multimedia chip which contains a CS3231A codec,
>         SB and MPU401 emulations. There is support for OPL3 too.
>         Unfortunately the MPU401 mode doesn't work (I don't know how to
>         initialize it). CS4236 is an enhanced (compatible) version of CS4232.
>         NOTE! Don't ever try to use isapnptools with CS4232 since this will just
>         freeze your machine (due to chip bugs). If you have problems in getting
>         CS4232 working you could try initializing it with DOS (CS4232C.EXE) and
>         then booting Linux using loadlin. CS4232C.EXE loads a secret firmware
>         patch which is not documented by Crystal.
>
>
> You need CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232. That's in the kernel. Documentation is at
>
> <kernel-dir>/Documentation/sound/CS4232
>
> It reads:
>
> To configure the Crystal CS423x sound chip and activate its DSP functions,
> modules may be loaded in this order:
>
>         modprobe sound
>         insmod ad1848
>         insmod uart401
>         insmod cs4232 io=* irq=* dma=* dma2=*
>
> This is the meaning of the parameters:
>
>         io--I/O address of the Windows Sound System (normally 0x534)
>         irq--IRQ of this device
>         dma and dma2--DMA channels (DMA2 may be 0)
>
> On some cards, the board attempts to do non-PnP setup, and fails.  If you
> have problems, use Linux' PnP facilities.
>
> To get MIDI facilities add
>
>         insmod opl3 io=*
>
> where "io" is the I/O address of the OPL3 synthesizer. This will be shown
> in /proc/sys/pnp and is normally 0x388.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Adam
>
> PS. You can substitute modprobe instead of insmod. And to have it loaded at
> boot time (after you get it working), put the names of the modules (if any)
> that you need loaded in /etc/modules

73
ke4nt
ke4nt1, thank you so much for the above post. I am typing this while listening to a CD on my Thinkpad 600 for the first time. All I have to do now is set it up so that the modules are loaded at boot time per the instructions. Terrific!
I followed the instructions exactly as stated, using io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0.
You can put the lines in your "bootlocal.sh" file, and your
box will have sound with every bootup ..

Remember to add your "bootlocal.sh" to your "filetool.lst" if
your running from LiveCD , and run your backup..

73
ke4nt
Yes, this works perfectly. I put "rmmod soundcore" and the four modprobe commands in /opt/bootlocal.sh and now have sound after booting. Great. Thanks again.
On another topic, if there are any writers out there, you might be interested in my experience with DSL. I've tried many combinations of Ted, AbiWord, vim, and ooWriter, searching for the simplest tool that will do the job efficiently. Ted is excellent for short work, but you are limited to rtf (no curly quotes, em dashes). The export out to Word or Writer works fairly well, but the import is awkward. Curly quotes are not reproducible. You have to do a lot of screwing around with search & replace. I think a few Perl routines could take care of this (once Ted was set up with a font that includes em dashes and curly quotes), but it is a nuisance.
AbiWord works well and has a wider import/export choice, but it also chokes on curly quotes. On their forum, they had many discussions about this. The general problem of non-standard characters is complicated, especially when you consider different languages and unlimited undo, redo, etc.
Both Ted and AbiWord work less well on longer documents (novel length) than ooWriter, which seems to have industrial strength display routines. ooWriter also has a reasonable smart (curly) quote and em dash substitution algorithm. I was hoping to get away with using a simpler wp, but I'm back to ooWriter on my present novel.
LyX is also a contender. It produces the best printed output  of all the word processors (equal to that of adobe pagemaker) and has by far the best mathematical expression editor (if you are doing scientific/technical writing). I wrote two novels with it, but it was an endless hassle converting to word format for publishers. You lose little formatting details and have to proofread everything twice. Revisions force you to go through this multiple times. Too bad. It's a great wp, although there is no dsl package yet.
I programmed for a living for years, so I'm used to programming text editors and would just as soon use one as use a formatting word processor. But the extra work involved in formatting the italics, curly quotes, etc, expected by publishers outweighs (for me) the initial simplicity, robustness, and ascii universality of the programming editor.
So, I came back to ooWriter and am happy that DSL supports it. Once loaded, ooWriter is fast and very solid, much better than MS Word, in my view. If I'm in the boondocks and running from a live CD or key drive, Ted will get me through fine.
(My books are available free in five different ebook formats at www.memoware.com if anyone is interested. Just search on "wetterau")
WoW ! - That's Great !
Thanks for the tips and sharing your trials with the WP's..
I'm off to see your works..

73
ke4nt
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