[ale] sound card problems with a IBM Thinkpad 390X P3 450

[Van L. Loggins]

I have tried 3 different distributions, each of them has similar problems with the sound card in my laptop. 
I have tried to get it to work with Fedora Core 1, JAMD Linux 0.0.6 (based on redhat 9), and Suse 8.2 Professional.
I am tempted to try it with Libranet 2.7, Slackware 9.1, or LindowsOS 4.0 to see how they work.

Each of these distributions identifies the sound card correctly as a ESS Solo 1 but when I try to play sound on them 
It comes out very scratchy, and is skipping and sounds like it is being fed thru a delayed reverb filter. 
I know in the good old days of computing if you had an ISA sound card that was configured with 
a conflicting IRQ setting it would cause the sound to act up similar to this. 
Is there any way that a integrated PCI sound card like this could be doing something similar? 
I figure that it is either this or that the sound card firmware in my laptop is just far enough off spec 
that the windows 2000 driver works fine, but the linux drivers do not. I have it configured as a dual boot
system. it has 512 megs of ram and a 12 gig hard drive so it has (barely) enough room to do this.

P.S. I flashed the bios in my laptop to the latest available version, It did not help, but I figured it would not
hurt.

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