From: Boris Gelfand (bg_at_cse.msu.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 15:50:30 EDT
"Steve C." wrote:
> Now you've done it! You wiped out the secret sound
> files with FreeBSD! Just kidding.
> Actually ME doesn't usually have any problems with
> sound. I installed ME on my 600E from scratch on a
> blank hard drive and it worked OK, XP also. Are you
> using a normal retail copy of ME, not some sort of
> restore disk? You also need to install the IBM
> Configuration Utility for Windows.
> BTW, I never used the DOS-mode PS2 utility. What's
> that do anyway?
>
> --- Boris Gelfand <bg_at_cse.msu.edu> wrote:
<snip of sound not working, mute locked no matter what
irrespective of OS>
I used the full retail version of 98SE and an MSDN of
ME. I strongly suspect it's not a driver issue, since
all OSes in question detect the sound hardware, report
no conflict, and pretend as if they're playing audio
just fine -- it's just that nothing comes out the speakers.
The DOS-mode PS2 utility is the command-line equivalent
to the IBM Configuration Utility for Windows. For those
who don't want to use Windows and still be able to configure
the IRQs and what not, this is the way to go, albeit
while fiddling with 2-3 floppies; to that end I made a
bootable ISO image with some DOS-mode disk utilities as
well as the PS2 config stuff all on one CD:
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~bg/tp600/ps2util.iso
The disk utils show up on A: and the ps2 utils show up
on drive L:. I'm fairly certain that the PS2 util isn't
specific to the TP600 but works on quite a range of
Thinkpads.
-bg
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