Re: [Thinkpad] 600E/Win98SE: (still) no sound *from speakers*(partially!)

In Win 98, in Device Manager-System Devices-PCI Bus, how is IRQ Steering
set?

Deanna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Wenzel" <cacx1999@gmx.net>
To: <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] 600E/Win98SE: (still) no sound *from
speakers*(partially!)

> Yes, it's yet another post from the guy with the mute Thinkpad ...
>
> I had to take a little while off, because in the meantime (I couldn't get
> the dock theory sorted out) I did some cross-platform testing;
> I installed the following OSs with the *correct* drivers - the results:
> - Windows 98: (as you all know) perfect sound over headphones, no sound
over
> speakers.
> - OS/2 Warp 4: exactly the same, perfect sound over headphones, no sound
> over speakers.
> - BeOS R5 Pro (out of the box, without additional drivers!): exactly the
> same again, perfect sound over headphones, no sound over speakers (I know,
> it's kinda boring).
> - Windows 2000 (without additional drivers): Big Surprise, perfect (if you
> don't mind a little distortion) sound over both speakers and headphones!
>
> So, considering that the original drive with Win XP worked, too, this
seems
> to be something that affects *every* OS except for the Windows
NT(/2000/XP)
> family. I was most surprised to see BeOS show the same misbehavior, as it
> AFAIK has absolutely nothing to do with DOS (which the others might have
in
> common in some way).
> Maybe you have to configure the Thinkpad using the DOS configuration even
> when you don't use something DOS-based, and only 2000/XP override that
> setting?
> I found a web page indicating something like that, dealing with the
> installation of Linux: http://www.mainsheet.org/thinkpad600e. I didn't
> install Linux, as I don't understand it.
> But I *did* enable audio with the DOS utility, and it didn't change
> anything.
> Another thing I noticed under Win2000 is that the audio system uses up an
> interrupt for ISA (5) and one for PCI (9, shared). Does that say anything?
>
> Alex
>
>
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