it's usually good to append info relevant to a particular problem, but sending a 100K email to a mailing list should probably be avoided in the future :-)
if you haven't tried it yet, try making a knoppix CD and booting off that. knoppix has excellent hardware detection, on several occations i've used it to troubleshoot hardware issues and set up devices when $DISTRO didn't do it correctly. jason On Friday 16 January 2004 13:13, Jesse Aaron Safir wrote: > Let me start by saying that I haven't seriously messed around with > Linux since about 1998. That being said, I am trying it out again. > I have loaded RedHat 9.0 on a Pentium II 450MHz IBM PC300PL with > limited success. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and then Mandrake 9.2 on an > IBM ThinkPad 600e and most recently I have loaded SuSE 9.0 on both a > home built AMD Athlon 750 machine with 256MB RAM and on the same IBM > ThinkPad 600e. > > With both versions of Mandrake and with SuSE, I am unable to get the > sound working. Both distros knew that it was a ThinkPad with a > CS4601 SoundFusion Audio Accelerator but the module won't load. And > if there's a way to configure what resources it's using, I haven't > been able to find it. None of the options for configuring the module > seem to allow me to set IRQ and memory and DMA and stuff. > > I did a Google search on this problem and found that a bunch of > people have had problems getting the sound to work on a ThinkPad > 600e. I even saw an old document on IBM's site about how to load > RedHat Linux 6.0 on it and how to get the sound working. > > Anyway, I don't know my way around Linux enough yet to know how to > fix it and YaST isn't fixing it. > > I could use some tips from the Linux Gurus out there... > > I actually have a bunch more questions as I'm trying to get > reacqainted with Linux after all these years, but those can wait for > another email... > > Here's the dump of my hardware information from YaST: -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
