[luau] Help with Sound on a ThinkPad 390x?

[Tom Hackett]

Hi,

My name is Tom Hackett, I've been using Linux off and on for a couple years, 
but up until recently most of my computer time was spent in front of my 
PowerMac G4 running OS X.  A little while ago I bought myself a used IBM 
ThinkPad 390x on eBay and installed Debian Linux on it.  It's been a great 
experience and I've learned a lot, and had a great time.  
I meant to come to the last workshop at MidPac you guys had, but the timing of 
it turned out to be in conflict with another thing I had to go to.
I was actually hoping perhaps to pick somebody's brain about a problem I've 
been having with my laptop.  There's really only a few things left to do to 
improve my experience with this laptop and the main one is to get the sound 
working better.  It didn't work right off the bat, and I tried installing 
ALSA and then when that didn't seem to do much of anything, I compiled my own 
kernel.  I discovered that with my newly compiled kernel, which included 
support for my sound hardware in the kernel instead of as a module, I could 
get sound just fine as long as I had my NetGear FA511 10/100 PC Card in.  
When I remove the card the sound is garbled and out of sync.  I think that 
the sound issues are beyond my abilities at the moment.  I was wondering if 
perhaps somebody on this mailing list might be able to help me out?
I just noticed that you guys had your meeting at PriceBusters tongiht.  Maybe 
should I just stop by the next meeting you have?

- Tom Hackett