I replaced the commercial OSS drivers in my desktop machine with the ALSA drivers, and it works great. The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient.
Now I want to try installing the ALSA drivers to my ThinkPad 560 also, and I know that my ThinkPad uses the ESS Autodrive drivers in Windows. Does anyone know how to get ALSA to work on a ThinkPad? I have tried to configure ALSA for ESS Autodrive and alsaconf just aborts. Maybe I need to use a different driver, not ESS Autodrive. My desktop has a VibraX card but I had to configure ALSA for SB16 PnP to get it to work, so perhaps a different driver is needed on the ThinkPad also. thanks -- Andrew
