[geeks] Linux, Thinkpad 600E, sound

[Phil Stracchino]

I seek assistance.

We have an IBM Thinkpad 600E (specifically, model 2645-3AU), on which
we're currently running Slackware 11 and kernel 2.6.20.  The sound chip
in this model is consistently erroneously identified by Linux utilities
as a Cirrus Logic CS4610/4611, but is actually a CS4237B. Try as we
might, we cannot get sound to work on it.  We've tried kernel OSS/Free
drivers, kernel ALSA drivers, the full ALSA package, and commercial OSS
from opensound.com.  The closest we've been able to get to working sound
is with commercial OSS 3.9.9.4d, which actually builds an osslinux
module that will load, but is unablet o initialize the sound chip.

Has anyone here ever succeeded in getting sound working under Linux on
this model of Thinkpad, or know anyone who has?  And if so, how did you
or they do it?


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