Troubles with a thinkpad 560

[Damon McGraw <damon@watchland.org>]

I've got debian stable running on my Thinkpad 560 and most things are
working great. I only have two problems:
1) I can't get sound to work. The laptop has a ESS 1688 card in it and
I thought that the soundblaster driver would work for this. but I
haven't been able to get the driver to load (it's compiled as a
module).

2) This one is more troubling. I can't seem to get the laptop to
suspend a second time. After I boot debian (xdm is NOT running) I can
suspend with apm --suspend or the fn-F4 key sequence and restore
without any trouble. After this i am unable to suspend again until I
reboot the system. When I try to suspend with apm --suspend I get a
message saying "apm: Input/output error".

Any information anyone has about either of these would be great! I'm
especially concerned with the 2 issue, as this is rather inconvenient.

Thanks,
Damon