PNPBIOS vs cs423B codec

1999-12-08 Thread joeo
I've been trying to get my laptop sound to work with recent kernels. It's a thinkpad 600e with a cs4610 on board. I contacted the author of the newpcm code and he mentioned that instead of using the ac97 codec it most likely uses a cs423x in association with the cs4610. This actually jives with

PNPBIOS vs cs423B codec (fwd)

1999-12-08 Thread joeo
I've edited the boot messages from my previous mail (the result of fighting with pine over a slow link with a little too much coffee thrown in), sorry to clog up the lines... (fwd) I've been trying to get my laptop sound to work with recent kernels. It's a thinkpad 600e with a cs4610 on board.

PNPBIOS vs cs423B codec

1999-12-09 Thread joeo
Managed to get the sound stuff working on this thinkpad 600e, for anyone who cares... Had to update to the most recent bios, and made sure "quick boot" was disabled (hold down F1 while powering on to get into bios). I removed the "csa0" device from the kernel config, despite having a CS4610 prob

Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread joeo
I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the partition doesn't show any obvious corruption. What do these errors indicate? ad5: status=51 error=84 ad_inter

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread joeo
Will the backdown to PIO mode be permanent till the next reboot of the machine, or will the driver be able to attempt to return to DMA mode after a timeout period. I'm only seeing these errors under really heavy disk activity (mutlitple nfs readers and writers plus rsync/mirror jobs to the vinum

Re: current status of pcm ??

2000-04-25 Thread joeo
I'm not running a recent current on my TP600E (it's pre 4.0-RELEASE). Sound works on this snapshot (4.0-2314-CURRENT). The relavent config bits... options PNPBIOS device pcm0 (notice no bridge drivers (like sbc0)) dmesg output ... unknown6: at port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7 on isa0 un