Ibm Thinkpad 600e

Hi all, this is my first post to the SuSE forums and I am so glad you all have this for help for Linux/SuSE noobies like myself. I just got an older laptop from a friend and have installed SuSE 9.1 personal edt on it. Now everything works great (Wireless,Video, and all), except my sound doesnt work. Now I have searched Google on this topic and it seems as if Linux/SuSE sees this sound card as something diffrent then what it is. Now I was wondering if anyone else is running this laptop, and has fixed this problem or knows how to fix this problem. Please keep in mind that I am a new Linux user and only know the basics.

Thanks,
Waveslider

Google.com is your friend

"edited my /etc/modules.conf as follows:

alias char-major-14 cs-4232
options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0

That's it, that's all. Saved the file.

Then as su : modprobe cs4232

Started the gui (fluxbox) and launched aumix. Adjusted the settings. Started XMMS using OSS, and picked a directory with some mp3's. Lo and behold - sound!"

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ar...004/07/3/170319

Ok I found the file at ect/modules.conf, but I cant get into the file. It keeps asking what I would like to open the file with, and then shows a list of applications. What should I open and edit the file with?
Thanks,
Waveslider

Open up console and do the following;

# xhost +

# su -

password

# export DISPLAY=:0.0

# kwrite /etc/fstab

edit the file, save and exit.

It is a plain text file. The neat thing about linux is that nearly all your setting files will be plain text. You also need to have root access to edit that file. Here's how I would do it. Open Konsole then...

su
[enter root password]
cd /etc
pico modprobe.conf

In pico (a text editor), use the cursor keys to move to the correct part of the document, make the edits, then hit Ctrl-X to quit and save.

If you'd prefer a graphical text editor, you can login to KDE as root and choose from several.

Ok so I tried both of your methods and the Pico command was not found by Bash. And the other method xhost + returned "access control disabled, clients can connect from any host". Also Kwrite could not be found. Any other suggestions? And by the way thank you for the help so far
Waveslider

Originally posted by waveslider@Nov 11 2004, 16:00
Ok so I tried both of your methods and the Pico command was not found by Bash. And the other method xhost + returned "access control disabled, clients can connect from any host". Also Kwrite could not be found. Any other suggestions? And by the way thank you for the help so far*
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That is what it should return. There is no capital 'K'...just kwrite. If not installed, use kate instead.

Ok got it done. Now when I did the modprobe cs4232 in Konsole it returned a couple of errors.

WARNING: Error inserting uart401 (/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/kernel/sound/oss/uart401.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting ad1848 (/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/kernel/sound/oss/ad1848.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error inserting cs4232 (/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/kernel/sound/oss/cs4232.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg).

Waveslider

exact same thing for me. ahhh! please help. ive looked everywhere and i cant get it to work.