seeking guidance installing Audio Sound Driver snd_cs46xx

[Member Hierax_ca]

How can I install the audio driver “snd_cs46xx” in AntiX-17?

In AntiX 13.2 “Luddite” this driver worked for sound with Thinkpad 600x while the newer “Thinkpad EC” audio driver doesn’t work (speaker-test FAILS = “no sound, cannot find card ‘0’”) so I’d like to replace it with the older one but Synaptic doesn’t find anything when I search for it.

AntiX-17

inxi -Axxx 
Audio: Card Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] 
driver: Thinkpad EC 
bus-ID: 00:06.0 
chip-ID: 1013:6003 
Sound: ALSA 
v: k4.4.10-antix.1-486-smp.

AntiX-13.2 (same inxi except):

... driver:snd_cs46xx ...
ver:k3.7.10-antix.5-486-smp.

I’m assuming it is the driver here not the kernel. I also tried older 4.4.10 and 4.9.11 Kernels in AntiX-17 and all still fail the same way.

Any idea how to get the audio working here?

Thanks!

AntiX 17.x:
- (32-bit): IBM Thinkpad 600X (2000), IBM NetVista X41 (2002), IBM Thinkpad A31p (2003);
- (64-bit): Lenovo Thinkpads x61s (2008), x200 (2009), x301 (2009).

[Moderator caprea]

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Maybe you take a look at this page.
It decribes the situation and a solution.
https://wiki.debian.org/snd-cs46xx
This is the side with the alsa-firmware:
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/firmware/
Seems like alsa-firmware-1.0.29.tar.bz2 is the newest.

Good luck !

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by caprea.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by caprea.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Dave. Reason: Links messing with page formating as stuck in "< li >" tags

[Anonymous]

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Here’s a page at alsa website describing those audio chips.
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-cs46xx
Just to note on older distros I had to use OSS drivers/emulation
to get crystal audio chips to work. Hope one of these sites helps.

[Moderator caprea]

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@Dave
Thanks for formating,
I was allready almost wondering why the threads allways bounced to the left, when I wrote something.

[Member asinoro]

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Give the outcome of the command:
sudo amixer set Master unmute ; pactl list sinks ; lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio" ; lsmod
Put the info inside code brackets not to take space.

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