[skyspeedr]

I have SuSE Linux 10.0 installed but the sound card is not working.

When I try to set up my sound card in YaST2 I get the message "It seems that you have a Thinkpad 600E laptop. On this laptop, the CS4236 driver should be used although the CS46xx chip is detected. Attempt to probe the configuration of CS4236 driver?".

When I answer "Yes" and the probe finishes I get a panel that says "An error occurred during the installation of CD4610 SoundFurion Audio Accelerator. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

How do I find out what the problem is with the paramaters, and how do I change them?

[skyspeedr]

I've tried the suggestion on the link below but is has not made any difference.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Script_for_configuring_the_CS4239_sound_chip_in_PnP_mode

When I enter install snd-cs46xx /bin/true as root in terminal, I get:

Linux:~ # install snd-cs46xx /bin/true
install: cannot stat `snd-cs46xx': No such file or directory
Linux:~ #

Same goes for:

Linux:~ # install snd-cs4236 /usr/local/bin/soundcard-on
install: cannot stat `snd-cs4236': No such file or directory
Linux:~ #

Anyone else have this problem???

[danleff]

Interesting article. It does not say specifically what distros the script will work on.

Did you add the script soundcard-on (named the same) to /usr/local/sbin/?

Did you add the modprobe Configuration lines to the appropriate /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/cs4236pnp file. Do either exist?

Or are you just trying to run the lines just in a terminal Window?

Is fastboot disabled in the bios, or set active?

[skyspeedr]

Yes, I added the soundcard-on script to /usr/local/sbin/, and I modified the modprobe Configuration lines in /etc/modprobe.conf.local (comments in /etc/modprobe.conf tell you to add local modifications to /etc/modprobe.conf.local rather than modifying modprobe.conf directly, and the last line of /etc/modprobe.conf is include /etc/modprobe.conf.local).

I even created the file /etc/modprobe.d/cs4236pnp file (which did not previously exist), using the lines added to /etc/modprobe.conf.local, and also copied soundcard-on to /usr/local/bin/ to see if that would help.

I've tried booting with fastboot disabled and fastboot enabled.

I only tried the terminal Window when nothing changed and I wanted to see what messages the commands were producing.

[danleff]

It looks like these soundcards are a problem. The iissue is how the card is sensed. They appear not to be plug-n-play and detected as ISA cards. Wish I had one of these to look at. My Thinkpad is an R-30 and works fine. Your Thinkpad is older and is bound to have some issues with module support.

What exact model of Thinkpad is this? Yes, the 2546-30U extention, as well.


Some articles that I found;

Installing Fedora Core 4 on the IBM Thinkpad 600E.

Suse Pro 9.0 on IBM Laptop 600E.

Thinkpad Wiki. Of course, this is probably what you found.

[skyspeedr]

My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad 600E type 2645-8AU

I'm using the SuSE Linux 10.0 Eval version.

I tried the following option from your first link (afer doing a BIOS reset and disabling quickboot).

Added to /etc/modprobe.conf.local:

options snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 cport=0x538 port=0x530 sb_port=0x220 fm_port=0x388 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236

But this is the message I get from modprobe (as root):

Linux:~ # modprobe snd-cs4236
sh: /usr/local/sbin/soundcard-on: Permission denied
FATAL: Error running install command for snd_cs4236
Linux:~ #

Then I tried the suggestion from the second link (set up using YaST):

* used the CS4231 driver I/O = 0x530
* Irq = 5
* DMA1 = 1
* DMA2 = 0
* MPUIO = 0x330
* MPUIRQ =9
But no luck. I get the following error in YaST:

"An error occurred during the installation of CS4231. The kernel module snd-cs4231 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters." -Same message I get when trying to set up the cs46xx device that shows up in YaST by default.

I had already found your third link. But thanks for looking these up!

You're right, though, the card does not seem to be detected as PnP.

[danleff]

Quote:

Linux:~ # modprobe snd-cs4236
sh: /usr/local/sbin/soundcard-on: Permission denied
FATAL: Error running install command for snd_cs4236

The permissions of the file soundcard-on are incorrect. They don't mention in the article how to set them properly. I guess they assume everyone knows how.

However, if you saved the script as regular user, this could explain the problem.

I assume you have KDE as your GUI?

Try going into the file manager as superuser. Navigate to the soundcard-on file and right click-->properties.

Look at the permissions. If they are both set as your regular user (in my case it would be, for example danleff) set them for root.

It may be a little more complicated than this, but let's see what happens.

[skyspeedr]

It was owned by root but did not have Execute priviledges. I changed it and now I get:

Linux:~ # modprobe snd-cs4236
/usr/local/sbin/soundcard-on: line 53: /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install: No such file or directory
FATAL: Error running install command for snd_cs4236

Line 53 is at the end of the file. Here's snd-cs4236...

#!/bin/bash

# Sound-via-pnp-script for Thinkpad 600E and possibly other computers with onboard
# CS4239/CS4610 that do not work with the PCI driver and are not recognized by the
# PnP code of snd-cs4236

# search sound card pnp device

for dev in /sys/bus/pnp/devices/*
do
grep CSC0100 $dev/id > /dev/null && WSSDEV=$dev
grep CSC0110 $dev/id > /dev/null && CTLDEV=$dev
done

# activate devices (Thinkpad boots with devices disabled unless "fast boot" is turned off)

echo activate > $WSSDEV/resources
echo activate > $CTLDEV/resources

# parse resource settings

{ read
read bla port1
read bla port2
read bla port3
read bla irq
read bla dma1
read bla dma2
# Hack: with PnPBIOS: ports are: port1: WSS, port2: OPL, port3: sb (unneeded)
# with ACPI-PnP:ports are: port1: OPL, port2: sb, port3: WSS
# (ACPI bios seems to be wrong here, the PnP-card-code in snd-cs4236.c uses the
# PnPBIOS port order)
# Detect port order using the fixed OPL port as reference
if [ ${port2%%-*} = 0x388 ]
then
# PnPBIOS: usual order
port=${port1%%-*}
oplport=${port2%%-*}
else
# ACPI: mixed-up order
port=${port3%%-*}
oplport=${port1%%-*}
fi
} < $WSSDEV/resources

{ read
read bla port1
cport=${port1%%-*}
} < $CTLDEV/resources

# load the module

modprobe --ignore-install snd-cs4236 port=$port cport=$cport fm_port=$oplport irq=$irq dma1=$dma1 dma2=$dma2 isapnp=0 index=0 && /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-cs4236

[skyspeedr]

[skyspeedr]

OK, I've been looking at lots of sites where they talk about how to get sound working on a TP600E, but nothing has worked for me, so...

I installed Red Hat Linux in a new partition on my 600E and entered the commands:

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

And presto! I have sound!! Now, why won't this work with SuSE 10.0???