[Scott42]

Hi im a new user for Mandrake 9.0 i have a IBM ThinkPad 600 (laptop), i have installed it successfully with the exception of my sound not working. On installation i click the sound card button and it askes me if i have and isa sound card i say no and it says to use harddrake. I goto harddrake to find nothing obvious that will help me. I have a system information snapshot (.nfo file) from when my laptop was ambitiously running windows xp but it did have all the hardware working perfectly. I would attach the file but it looks like .nfo files are not accepted (strange if you ask me).
The laptop has no documentation with it (secondhand) so the hardware list is difficult to determin for my laptop.
Im realy liking Mandrake 9.0 so any information to fix this would be great (I dont know what you need to know)

Name Crystal WDM Audio Codec
Manufacturer Crystal Semiconductor
Status OK
PNP Device ID ACPI\CSC0000\4&1B7F59A&0
I/O Port 0x00000530-0x00000537
I/O Port 0x00000388-0x0000038B
I/O Port 0x00000280-0x00000293
IRQ Channel IRQ 7
DMA Channel Channel 3
DMA Channel Channel 0
Name Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device

[lynch]

First the "Duh" stuff.
Did you open a mixer and unmute the sound and check volume levels?Sometimes they are muted by default.
Now somthing else:
Open a terminal and type:
/sbin/lsmod
and see if there are any sound-related modules loaded.
HTH
lynch

[Scott42]

Firstly im fairly sure that the sound isnt muted because when i tryied to start any application that had sound it gave me a message saying it was unable to find... i cant remeber the complete message but i think it went on to say that i was going to defalt to null and as far is i can tell that means it was going to point to "nothing".

I entered /sbin/lsmod it did something but i dont know what it is (off topic is there a list or database of all commands that can be used in the terminal for reference for a new user).

Anyway here is some information that i found in harddrake that might help. (i did read that laptop hadware can be difficult but the same article didnt tell me what to do)

Under Bridge(s)
82371AB PIIX4 ISA: "Module: unknown"
440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (AGP diabled): "Module: unknown"
(NOTE: there is no sound card tab in Harddrake?)

[Scott42]

I read you question about the /sbin/lsmod again and realised what you asked, no there are no HTH or lynch enterys.

[lynch]

Eh?
HTH=hope that helps
lynch= well,lynch lol
Here a pretty good site that has a list of commands .
lynch

[Scott42]

Well i have been reading article after article, trying this trying that, and nothing seemed to work. But i do believe i have progress.

The first step was to diabable plug and play function in the Thinkpad BIOS by shutting off quick boot option.

Then i ran sndconfig in the superuser terminal using these sound blaster settings.
I/o port 0x220, irq 7, dma 1
(I dont know if these are right or even if its right to use "sound blaster" but it works)

then under /etc/pcmcia/config.opts i placed a # in front of the line
include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff
(i dont know if that part was necessary i did that from an earlyer article and i havnt put it back yet to see if it did realy need to be done)

Now heres the trick i can run music CD's now which is great so i decided i wanted to play some mp3's so i found a mp3 CD i have written put it in the drive go copy then paste in my home folder, and then i get the following error:
The file or directory
/mnt/cdrom/song.mp3 does not exist.

i go back to the cd folder and refresh the page then they all disapear (its the same for my floppy drive).

so all i have to say is its not fair, it can play a music cd but it cant copy files of a cd? this linux has yet to prove it self to me i like all the stuff and its free but it would be dandy if it worked.

[lynch]

Create a target directory in your /home/username and see if they'll copy over.You may have to log in to the desktop as root.Do that and try playing the mp3 with xmms.
HTH
lynch