IBM laptop problem

Forum: Laptops
Topic: IBM laptop problem
started by: tarabaz

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Posted by tarabaz on July 04 2005,19:24

Hello 2 all! I have one major problem. I have laptop IBM 385ED (from 1997 year, 16 mb ram, 2100mb hdd, pentium mmx 166mhz).
I have installed DSL few days ago. Usually I use on this machine debian, but DSL is much better and faster. I have only one problem - system doesn't see my sound card. How can i configure it to work best? Please help me...

Regs.

BTW Damn Small Linux RULEZ!

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Posted by ke4nt1 on July 04 2005,19:53

That computer uses the crystal 4236 chip..

Try using modprobe commands from a root shell..

modprobe opl3 io=0x388
modprobe cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9

Exit X ( crtl-alt-bksp ) , then restart X ( type 'startx' at prompt )
Look for the wmix dockapp in the lower right hand corner..

If successful, add these commands to your /opt/bootlocal.sh file,
and run a backup to preserve them for next reboot.

Looks like that laptop will hold up to 40MB of ram.
Try to get some more for it..  40MB's would be best for DSL.

Let us know..

73
ke4nt

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Posted by tarabaz on July 04 2005,21:22

Thanks a lot! It's working really great. I will change disk, proc and ram in sunday (proc 266mhz, 40mb ram and 5gb hdd). Thank you very much. Best regards from Poland.

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