My Thinkpad600's sound is not working!

elektric · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Faroe Islands

Hiya guys!

i know, i know rtfm and all that but i searched the forums and all the related threads and tried most of the solutions offered but still no sound coming out of my machine..

My TP600 has model no.2645-450 and a (as far as i can tell) Crystal cs4232 or cs4236 soundchip

Ive installed all ALSA software, followed the Gentoo ALSA how-to and i think everythings ready to go but nothing happens.

Alsamixer reports on snd_ctl_open : no such device found

Some threads mentioned something similar to my problem but offered no apparent solution (maybe its me thats too stupid to get it

Ive narrowed it down to this: During startup i can see a repeated message thats states in short:
"Kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP Cards -> Kernel isapnp: No Plug & Play device found"

Im pretty sure that this is what's causing the trouble but i dont know how to fix it.

Im pretty new to Linux and totally n00b to Gentoo (Although i couldnt get it to work on RH9.0 either)

If anyone has a good idea on how to fix this i'd be very grateful

Thanks

pilla · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 8:23 pm Post subject:

If you think that isapnp is causing the problem, have you tried to disable it in the kernel?
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elektric · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Faroe Islands

how will it find the card then?

pilla · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:22 pm Post subject:

Can't you pass the parameters to the modules when loading them?
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elektric · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Faroe Islands

could you be a little more specific?

im not sure i know how to do that (n00b walking here)

pilla · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:41 pm Post subject:

I am not sure, as the last time I had to do it with a ISA PNP soundcard, I've used another distro that came with a sndconfig application. But if you can identify which interrupts, dma, etc it is using, I think you can specify the config line as in this page:

elektric · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Faroe Islands

Funny that you mention that page because i have already done that :-)

Maybe it isnt working because isapnp is overriding it or something.

I'll try and disable isapnp.

Thanks

pilla · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:11 pm Post subject:

elektric · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Faroe Islands

I think I'll do that yes..

Im pretty sure that those are the right ones because its the exact same laptop.

I'll give it a go and if nothing happens i'll try the knoppix cd

elektric · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Faroe Islands

Knoppix couldn't find my sound either..

Has anyone got a good idea on how to enable sound on this laptop?