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AndyHunt · Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

I'm having some trouble getting my venerable Thinkpad 600E to remember it's settings for the sound card. If I use ALSA to configure the soundcard using the suggested settings the card works perfectly until I reboot.

Immediately fter using ALSA the relevant settings in the modprobe.conf files are

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Hi Andy

Not sure that I know how to do it, but it looks as though you need to add

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4950 Location: Australia

It looks like Puppy automatically (and erroneously) loads the snd-cs46xx module at boot up, which is messing up the correct snd-cs4236 module.
I suggest you blacklist the snd-cs46xx module ... I don't know how to do this. Someone else will need to step in and help.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

I think I've seen somewhere

add rmmod snd-cs46xx to your rc.local file and reboot

then load the snd-cs4236 module in alsa wizard

please correct if I've remembered wrong, but I can't find it, maybe this was just for another module error, as I inserted the snd file references

Aitch

Nomad · Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Lincolnshire, UK

Hi all, and a 'woof, woof' to all users. New to this forum, and no way an expert, but I have been messing around with various distros for a while and do love the pups.
I had the same trouble using a 2645 model 600e. Currently having a crack at Puppy 4.0, but it seems to be a problem across the board (Slax, Dynebolic, Zenlive, Goblin etc etc). Did a considerable amount of trawling about and came across this http://linux-laptop.net/hosted/thinkpad600e-fc4.html
After setting the Thinkpad's Quickboot to 'off', I loaded Puppy and repeated the process described in the above link. I got sound - not as much as I know the machine to be capable of, but a good start. On shutdown I pup-saved to the hard drive. On reloading, I still had sound - at the same level. Then I thought to run ALSA which set about and configured the CrystalFusion controller, reporting same successfully. No sound - till I looked at the volume control levels which appeared to have been muted in the process, and that was soon put right. I now have volume levels equal to those obtained running Mr Gates' OS. Pup-saved again at shutdown, and everything stayed ok on next boot.
I've since done a 'frugal' install, repeating all above - and it works, and subsequently tried a 'full' install to the drive which responds equally well to the process. Kudos to that Fedora user.
Nomad

ps the sound recording used to test the above was Albert Collins' 'The Moon Is Full'. No carpet tiles were harmed during the procedure.

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4950 Location: Australia

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

@Nomad

Sound test file Wink

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O1WohReltuo

AndyHunt · Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

Thanks for all the suggestions. Just after I'd posted the original query about the soundcard I installed Puppy 4 - now I can get no sound at all out of the thinkpad.

I've since bought myself an EEEPC and am puppying that. As yet I haven't managed to mess up the sound on that.

Thanks for the help.

Andy