On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:29:08PM +0800, Clayton wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:15:14 +0100 > Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > All good advice, but.... to add some bad news, support for older > hardware sometimes seems to be going more then it is coming lately. I > also have a Thinkpad 600e, as well as, for the record, a Pentium III > Thinkpad a21m. Both have the misfortune to have sound cards that the > Debian project has declared "evil" and blacklisted, apparently because > of non-open firmware issues. The snd_cs46xx driver has been booted out
I have a 600E and had no end of trouble with the sound card. I posted questions to this list a long time ago and the one suggestion that worked was to compile a kernel without the cs46xx driver. It appears that the kernel insisted on loading this in preference to other drivers and the sound hardware didn't work, even when I blacklisted it and forcefully inserted the proper one. I presume that by that time the resources had been marked as used, or initialized in some way that made them unusable. > of the kernel [3a], and both of these machines are now without sound (I > am guessing if I rolled my own kernel.org kernel, it would work, but I > have not tried): Since I had that issue, I compiled a debian kernel (2.6.18), the debian way with the debian tools, without the cs46xx driver, but with the cs4231 driver. The sound card works just fine. > Thinkpad 600e: > 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4610/11 > [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) That's the exact one I have. > Thinkpad a21m > 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 > [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) I wouldn't be surprised if the same driver (cs4231) would work on this machine. Maybe at least a subset of features? > To add to the mayhem, I also have a Pentium III Thinkpad i1300, and the > ... Can't offer any specific help about the other problems... A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
