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[Volker Jahns <volker AT thalreit.de>]

You might want to check out http://www.thinkwiki.org, there is lot of 
information on thinkpads and Linux.

Maybe it's a PNP problem: The thinkpad bios stuff ( sound and other 
things) is enabled by tpctl under Linux and ps.exe under DOS. If you do 
not enable sound w/ these tools it will never work :-(

On a Thinkpad 560X I never got the alsa sound driver working, while the 
OSS drivers worked fine ( see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/CS4237). The 
loudspeakers on the 560X are crap, though.
> I have a problem with configuring a sound card. I am not using BL but
> vectorlinux3, but I get no replay on the VL forum. Vecterlunux3 is a
> SW 8 derivation and from following the discussion on this list I think
> that some of you should be able to come up with some ideas.
>
> I have just installed VL3 on an older IBM ThinkPad 390. But the sound
> configuration did not succeed. The sound card was auto detected by the
> configuration script to be MagicMedia 256AV. and that is right from
> what I can "google". Next thing is a sound test and that test is
> negative. No sound but a massage.
>
> Sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp' No such device