[ale] ThinkPad sound working

[Bob Toxen]

Jim,

Do you have the DVD/CD-writing device in your ThinkPad?
I've been offered a used one for sale for $100 but I don't know what
software to install (or how) to try to read DVDs.

Any advice would be very helpful.

Thanks,
Bob

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:51:57AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> My Thinkpad T40 (can't be that much different) has the following modules
> laoded:
> 
> snd_seq_dummy
> snd_intel8x0
> snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm_oss
> snd_mixer_oss
> snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc
> snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq_midi
> snd_rawmidi
> snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_seq
> snd_seq_dummy
> snd_timer
> snd_seq_device
> snd
> 
> hth,
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 01:05 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
> > My IBM ThinkPad R31 laptop sound working this evening.
> > 
> > The suggestion to load the i810_audio module failed because it failed
> > with an undefined symbol.  I grep'ed for the variable's name in other
> > source files in the same directory and found it defined in ac97_codec.c.
> > 
> > I then loaded this module before the i810_audio module and there, in
> > the Caribou Coffee Shop, I had sound!
> > 
> > Bob
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