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

Can't check this at the moment, as Win 98 won't boot correctly anymore
(boots to the desktop, then freezes).
I'll probably have to reinstall it (for the fourth time now), but because
that's going to cause problems with the other OSs and I don't have the time
right now, it's going to take a while. I'll come back later.

Alex

> 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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Received on Mon Jun 7 02:50:26 2004