[LAU] Thinkpad R60 for Audio Update - Firewire Conflicts with Audio

[Pieter Palmers]

mea wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry to bump into the thread like this, but I have 3+ year old R40 and 
> I never managed to make it work with my firewire sound card under linux, 

You should check whether your laptop has a Ricoh 1394 chipset. If it 
does, you're out of luck. Ricoh chipsets are buggy in hardware, and 
cannot be used for firewire audio interfaces. Thinkpads are known to use 
these chipsets.

lspci | grep 1394

should give you an idea.

Pieter Palmers


> I think mainly because of> cat /proc/interrupts
>  0:    6674809          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:         24          XT-PIC  i8042
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   6:          3          XT-PIC  floppy
>   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>   9:         48          XT-PIC  acpi
>  11:    1744806          XT-PIC  uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, 
> uhci_hcd:usb3, ehci_hcd:usb4, yenta, ohci1394, Intel 82801DB-ICH4, eth0, 
> radeon at pci:0000:01:00.0
>  12:         35          XT-PIC  i8042
>  14:      27840          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:         20          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0
> ERR:          0
> 
> As you can see, 11 is loaded. My question: In BIOS I see letters(A,B, 
> etc) all assigned to 11. Is it safe to try to change them?
> Best
> 
> 
> 
> Allan Wind wrote:
>> On 2007-04-19T12:55:00-0700, Ken Dawson wrote:
>>> The other question I have (as I am preparing to make a fairly pricey 
>>> decision) is whether anyone could provide this type of information 
>>> for the Lenovo t60p, or t60.
>>
>> z61p:
>>
>> allan_wind at viento:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
>>            CPU0       CPU1
>>   0: 2853045399          0    XT-PIC-XT        timer
>>   1:    2072829          0    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
>>   2:          0          0    XT-PIC-XT        cascade
>>   9:   28354520          0    XT-PIC-XT        acpi
>>  11:      73153          0    XT-PIC-XT        ehci_hcd:usb1, yenta, 
>> uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb5, ohci1394, 
>> HDA Intel
>>  12:   51346798          0    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
>>  14:   31081927          0    XT-PIC-XT        libata
>>  15:          0          0    XT-PIC-XT        libata
>> 313:   14181079        381   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
>> 314:    2266196        375   PCI-MSI-edge      libata
>> NMI:     130142      48808
>> LOC: 2853063066 2853112560
>> ERR:         12
>>
>> I have not tried to do anything with interrupt 11 (i.e. bios tweaks or 
>> module
>> options).
>>
>>
>> /Allan
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