Re: Getting sound working on Thinkpad
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> I'm installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on an IBM Thinkpad A31p, all is
> going smoothly apart from a couple of areas. One is sound. Audio and
> dsp facilities are going to be important to me as I'll be working with
> speech recognition software. Looking at the linux-laptop pages and at
> linuxcare there doesn't seem to be a problem with sound on the A31p,
> so it must be something I'm doing ...
[...]
> 2. The spec for the A31p says it has a "Sound Blaster Pro 16
> compatible sound system". However, trying to install the kernel module
> sb (for Sound Blaster compatible sound systems) failed with 'No such
> device'. I successfully installed various other audio-related modules
> with likely sounding names. W2K tells me the audio device is a
> SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio. I can't see anything that looks
> relevant to that in the kernel module list. (a) Any leads on what's in
> this machine? (b) what kernel modules to select to be fully equipped?
It's an i810 based audio device. Using the ALSA driver for it works fine
for me.
Daniel
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