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gispeterson

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From: El Paso, TX

Registered: 2011-07-06

Posts: 24

sound on an old as dirt ibm 600

so i have read that #!10 removed sound support for this workhorse. if there is no work around, are there any disros that i should try besides puppy? (FYI the newest version of puppy will not install)

any help would be wonderful, as this is (#!) the only distro that has successfully loaded on this machine.

machinebacon

#! unstable

From: China

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,825

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Re: sound on an old as dirt ibm 600

Hi Gis,
tricky situation.
The question is if the distribution explicitly supports the card even with newer kernels or if an older vanilla kernel can be used as base install.

Have you checked this already? http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/CS4239
Seems Vanilla Linux ALSA driver >linux-2.6.26 won't work, but everything 'older' than this probably does.

So I guess: http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=l … #pkgsearch and
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=l … #pkgsearch and
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=l … #pkgsearch versions are candidates. Of course you should then check their sites if they still have the old iso's available.

Debian Lenny, for example, is supported until April 2012 and uses the 2.6.26 kernel. Maybe you can find a netinstall image and see if your card is recognized/working.

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gispeterson

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From: El Paso, TX

Registered: 2011-07-06

Posts: 24

Re: sound on an old as dirt ibm 600

Thanks for your help Mr. Bacon.
Drbian Lenny was the first distro I ever used, and it was far to heavy. Im using the original HD and Memory, debian wanted 8GB, and i have 4GB..... and it i was more command line savy it would have been fine.

I think puppy listed older distros i'll try there first.

FYI #! runs great on a Toshiba Satalite from 1998.

machinebacon

#! unstable

From: China

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,825

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Re: sound on an old as dirt ibm 600

Probably you used the standard Lenny install with the GNOME desktop. That's why a netinstall would be preferable, adding openbox or XFCE and a 'light' browser like Midori, Sylpheed/Claws for mails, Mplayer/VLC for media, pcmanfm as file manager.

On my 4GB SSD drive I run Debian Sid with XFCE and Chromium, Pidgin, some smaller apps/games and have around 30% free.

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mo

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Registered: 2011-07-17

Posts: 3

Re: sound on an old as dirt ibm 600

Don't give up on Crunchbang yet!
I installed #! on my 600E today and really easy (listening to some dancehall radio stream right now). I am not sure if the sound hardware is exactly the same as in the TP 600 but for me the following worked (courtesy of http://litljay.com/howtos/600e/):

1. disable quickboot in bios
2. use the following boot options "acpi=off apm=on pnpbios=off"
3. maybe  you need to put

blacklist snd-cs46xx
blacklist cs46xx
blacklist snd-cs4231
blacklist snd-cs4232

in your /etc/modprobe/alsa-base-blacklist.conf

Enjoy!

Last edited by mo (2011-07-17 23:58:57)