Dec 092011
If I remember right, this is the least problematic issue with this laptop and Linux. As always, I go to the Gentoo guide.
My sound card is an ALi M5451 PCI card, but for some reason I had USB and PCMCIA support built into the kernel. I am disabling these options, as well as OSS (a deprecated protocol), so I’m recompiling and then rebooting.
