Sound Problems On The Ibm Thinkpad 600 Laptop

[concer]

Hi,

I just have installed Suse Linux 10.2 on my Think pad 600 laptop (233 MHZ PII, 256MB RAM, 20 GB HDD). Every thing works fine, but I can't hear sound on my user account. On the root account i can hear sound from a CD but very, very, very silent. I can not make it louder. And the sound is in a very bad quality (the sound I hear is in peaces of ca. 2 sec, repeat this 2 sec 2-3 times and goes on to the next 2 seconds of the song and so on). The think pad uses a crystal semiconductors cs4236 sound chip.
what can I do to solve this problem???

Please help, I am a bloody Linux beginner....

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[gogalthorp]

Be sure the sound card is reconized by going to

Yast-Hardware-sound. Be sure that you press the advanced button and test the sound.

Also follow instructions here and see if any of that helps.

Package Sources/10.2 - openSUSE-Community

and
Hacking openSUSE 10.2 - Software in Review

If nothing else you will learn about installing sofware

BTW from your other thread I agree that your system is very light weight and may not handle Suse full install. You need to trim the fat and remove any package you don't really need. You might also try one of the lighter weight GUI's.

Log out. At the bottom left of the log in screen click the icon/text this will give you a list of several simpler less intensive GUI desktops. They are not as pretty but they take a lot less resources.

[concer]

thanks, i will try the the two links.

my laptop is old and slow but it handels suse priti well. i have tried ubuntu linux and i even got the sound to work, but i like KDE much bether then GNOME. do you know a way to bring ubuntu linux to use KDE and not GNOME. i know tih is a other topic theme but kan someone help...

[gogalthorp]

Kupuntu is a Ubuntu distro that uses KDE

[concer]

well, i still dont have sound. i dont hawe sound on my user acount but on the root acount i hawe sound (some koned of). wenn i play a cd i get sound bit in peaces.

when i got this laptop, ubuntu linux was the os, whit out sound. on the ubuntu forum i found this guid (Tweaking the thinkpad 600 - Ubuntu Forums) how to get the sound to work and i got sound and everything.

i tried to use this guide on suse 10.2, too but i can not find the files used in the guide. is it posible tu use this guide to get the sound to work??

[gogalthorp]

Looks straight forward if you can map the modules and alias-base files to there Suse eqivalents. Unfortunatly I don't know

Maybe someone else can help here.

Maybe you can use YAST to set those variables????