Lenny(Etch upgrade) on Thinkpad R61: Fn keys and sound issue

["umesh debian" <umesh.debian@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

I recently upgrade Etch to Lenny using apt-get dist-upgrade after
changing all etch occurrences in sources.list. I am facing problems
that were there is Etch also, mainly the Fn+* keys not working and
sound not working(HDA intel). Had gone through a lot in internet
regrading installing packages such as tpctl, tp_smapi, etc and Alsa
divers for sound. Still i am not able to bring these up on the Laptop.
Alsa already has a bug report regarding problem with HDA intel PCI
sound. is there a workaround?

If anybody has done successful changes for R61 in this regard, please reply.

Regards,
Umesh