Old Crystal Sound with FC2?

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:18, Gordon Keehn wrote:
> Peter Hutnick wrote:
> 
> > Gordon Keehn wrote:
> >
> >> Peter Hutnick wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a ThinkPad 600, with some old Crystal sound.  FC1's version 
> >>> of sndconfig picked it up just fine.  system-config-sound reports no 
> >>> soundcards detected.  I installed the old FC1 sndconfig rpm, but the 
> >>> driver model seems to have changed ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Any hints?
> >>>
> >>> -Peter
> >>>
> >> Hi, Peter
> >>    I've had the same problem with an old Aptiva SE7 with the CS4232 
> >> chip.  For one thing, support for the CS4232 (and from browsing the 
> >> /lib/modules hierarchy, a number of other legacy chips) was not 
> >> configured in the default kernel.
> >
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that the modules I need are lying around in 
> > /lib/modules/...  I just can't get them to load, even when I specify 
> > what I am pretty sure are the correct parameters.  Honestly I'd like 
> > the configuration tool to Just Work.
> >
> > -Peter
> 
>     In the month since this thread was last active, there have been a 
> couple of threads related to CS43xx sound chips.  After having tryed all 
> the suggestions, the closest I got to sound was a message that module 
> CS4232.ko could not be loaded.  I haven't been moved to try building a 
> custom kernel yet, but I'm confident that if I did, I'd find that 
> support for CS4232 sound had not been generated in the default kernels.
>     Cheers,
> Gordon

Have you tried modprobing the cs46xx module?  That module probes for me,
but I still cannot get any sound out of my 600E.

Forrest