Thinkpad 600 sound

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Thinkpad 600 sound
started by: caulktel

Posted by caulktel on Sep. 10 2005,04:07

Hi all,

I just installed DSL 1.5 to my my IBM Thinkpad 600 hard drive. It looks great and everything works, except the sound. I think it uses the Crystal cs4236 chipset. Does anybody have a idea how to get it working? With Slackware Current on another hard drive I got it working by using alsaconf. any help would be great.

Joel

Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 10 2005,04:11

Joel,
welcome back..

Search for cs4232 in the forums..
I have many posts about using crystal chipsets ..

Also, I recall some special needs for the IBM 600's
You might search for that as a keyword too..

I don't recall which section, but it was pretty detailed about
getting sound on a 600 working.. step-by-step stuff..

Of course, alsa will probably work,
but the OSS seems to do the job too, without loading the alsa stuff..

73
ke4nt

Posted by k9wkj on Sep. 10 2005,12:02

this for my 380ed but it may work for you

here is my /opt/bootlocal.sh
_
rmmod soundcore
rmmod cs4232
modprobe sound
insmod ad1848
insmod uart401
insmod cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5
__

note this though io=0x534 dont know why it needs the 534 not 530 but that made it work i used windoze to discover that
but never a problem now
the bios said 530 but it didnt work
all works fine now

for my old stinkpad 380ED
works bangin good

Posted by green on Sep. 10 2005,12:32

http://damnsmalllinux.org/static/act=ST;f=26;t=7910;hl=600e+and+sound;st=5

Posted by caulktel on Sep. 10 2005,14:16

Thanks for the response, I think I will give k9wkj's post a try only changing the cs4232 with cs4236 and see if that works. This is sort of what I was doing before with a older laptop and a different chipset.

BTW Kent, I search all over the place and kept coming back to my own post, I wonder if the info you were talking about got purged. Oh well, I am confident that with all you guys helping we will succeed! Jee but it's great to be back home after being cast into the world of Winblows all summer.

Joel

Posted by tempestuous on Sep. 10 2005,14:57

Kopsis posted the crucial information here -
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=6961 >
BIOS settings ... always important.

Your module should be loaded like this -
modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0

Sometimes the cs4232 driver may fail to load properly unless the various modules it depends on are loaded in a particular order. If no success, try this -

modprobe sound
insmod ad1848
insmod uart401
insmod cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0

Posted by caulktel on Sep. 10 2005,18:22

Thank you tempestuous, and all the rest. It now works. This has got to be one of the best forums around for actually helping with problems instead of just racking up posts.

Another ?, I'm not familiar with Grub, can somebody tell me what file to edit so that the default boot mode would be fb1024x768 instead of the present default? Thanks again!

Joel

Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 10 2005,19:36

Look in /mnt/yourfrugalpartition/boot/grub for the menu.list file.

Try adding ' vga=791 ' to your active kernel line - i.e.

kernel /boot/linux24 quiet vga=791 acpi=off noscsi frugal dma toram

Give it a try, and let us know..

73
ke4nt

Posted by caulktel on Sep. 11 2005,04:33

Kent,
I never tried your suggestion because I figured it out before your last post. What I did was edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst and change default to 2 instead of 0. I also I also set the timeout to 5 instead of 15 so it would boot a little faster. I've never used Grub before, but it seems pretty easy to configure.

Joel