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Slackware on IBM Thinkpad !
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:12 am
by sco1984
Hello every1,
I bought IBM Thinkpad R50e-1834-EQ1 last month. And yesterday i tried
Linux Slackware 10.1 . Whoops ! It works !! I got amazing results.
It took video drivers as well as ethernet card drivers. But failed to install sound
card n modem drivers. Anybody can tell me from where to download ?
My motherboard is = 855 GM
Sound chip = SoundMAX
But Slackware is simply awesome! Browsing is cool, and KMail is simple
just like Microsoft Outlook . Overall performancewise its cool ! Try it !!
Regards,
Amey
sco1984@gmail.com
Re: Slackware on IBM Thinkpad !
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:16 pm
by jspsh
sco1984 wrote:Hello every1,
I bought IBM Thinkpad R50e-1834-EQ1 last month. And yesterday i tried
Linux Slackware 10.1 . Whoops ! It works !! I got amazing results.
It took video drivers as well as ethernet card drivers. But failed to install sound
card n modem drivers. Anybody can tell me from where to download ?
My motherboard is = 855 GM
Sound chip = SoundMAX
But Slackware is simply awesome! Browsing is cool, and KMail is simple
just like Microsoft Outlook . Overall performancewise its cool ! Try it !!
Regards,
Amey
sco1984@gmail.com
Are you using the default Slackware kernel?
Re: Slackware on IBM Thinkpad !
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:43 pm
by chubes
Try running alsaconf.
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:22 pm
by teetee
As soon as I finished installing slackware (10.1/10.2) I used this command:
# lspci
to find out that my IBM ThinkPad 240x uses Crystal CS4281 audio chip from Cirrus Logic. Then I simply choice CS4281 driver when I was compiling kernel 2.6.14. After the new kernel was installed and the system reboot, I used
# lsmod
and confirmed that my kernel sound modules are loaded:
Module Size Used by
snd_cs4281 22112 2
snd_rawmidi 26400 1 snd_cs4281
snd_opl3_lib 11648 1 snd_cs4281
snd_hwdep 9760 1 snd_opl3_lib
Then I used this command to adjust the sound:
# alsamixer
and used this command to save the settings so it would take effect every time I start the system:
# alsactl store
That's how I configured my sound. Maybe alsaconf command is even faster and easier.
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:18 pm
by chubes
What you did works just fine. I just didn't feel like subjecting my old machine to half an hour to an hour of 100% CPU just to compile support for the CS audio chipset into the kernel.
alsaconf simply detects what chipset is in the machine and loads insertable kernel modules.