First Thoughts on FC2T2 on Thinkpad T40 and Sound issues

[Marshall Lewis]

I think you're not supposed to use ide/scsi emulation anymore.

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 16:53, pjain001 at covad.net wrote:
> 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
> 
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