Re: Sound on Thinkpad 390X

[christoph hebeisen <heby@heby.de>]

hi alex,

> ahem, the above sentence was a bit garbled, too. i meant that sound works
> without problems when the thinkpad is docked, but not at all if used
> standalone. (playing cds works all the time, because that does not use the
> DA-functionality of the chip at all.)
> i'm running 2.2.16, and it does not fix the problem.

just as a quick and dirty suggestion: have you tried alsa? it solved a lot
of problems on my ibm i series thinkpad - the oss free ess solo driver is
experimental and it's quite noticable. and alsa seems to have reached a
stable state in which you just do ./configure && make && make install and
everything is fine - no fiddling with anything was necessary. the only
things you have to do afterwards is changing your /etc/modutils/aliases.

i guess that the 390 uses ess solo as well but even if it is another chip
- with this you'd be trying a different driver. 

heby

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