Slackware on IBM Thinkpad !

[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

[jspsh]

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?

[chubes]

Try running alsaconf.

[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.

[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.