First Thoughts on FC2T2 on Thinkpad T40 and Sound issues

[pjain001 at covad.net]

I just tried accessing my cdrw/dvd-rom drive and it's kaput.  For who
knows what reason, /dev/hdc ( DVD/CDRW ) was not being recognized as a
valid block device anymore.  I tried mounting the drive under /dev/scd0,
recreating /dev/hdc using mknod but still no luck.  Also made sure
ide/scsi emulation was enabled.

I'm going to get a little daring and do a completely new install of FC2T2
now so we'll see how that goes.

Thanks
PJ

>
>
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 pjain001 at covad.net wrote:
>>
>> Everything worked like a charm with two exceptions:
>> 1) No USB devices were being recognized.  I had to manually edit and
>> load the USB driver in /etc/modprobe.conf.dist.  After that, no
>> problems. 2) I'm running FC2T2 on a Thinkpad T40 and I can't get sound
>> to work for the life of me.  I try to manually load the i810 sound
>> driver ( I think it's snd-intel8x0 under FC2T2 ) but it can't be
>> found.  Can anyone confirm whether I'll have to rebuild the kernel to
>> get the driver?
>
> My installation is an upgrade from FC1 and following rawhide -
> (currently with kernel-2.64-1.305). I believe sound & USB were
> configured correctly by kudzu for me on the T40
>
> $ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> alias eth0 e1000
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
> install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
> 2>&1 || : remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
>>/dev/null 2>&1 || : alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
>
> After boot - I crank up the volume with gnome-volume-control
> (volume,pcm) - and I can play mp3 files.
>
> I had tried an external usb device earlier last week with
> kernel-2.6.4-1.300.  I was able to connect to a usb drive enclosure with
> a dvd-rw drive in it.
>
> However there are mails in this list about usb problems with
> kernel-2.64-1.305
>
> Satish