Sarge - sound problems on a ThinkPad T23

[Mark Scott <scottme@talk21.com>]

I installed sarge via netinst on an IBM T23 laptop,
taking mostly defaults, and ended up with an OSS sound
setup.  

uname -a gives me:
Linux mest23 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC
2004 i686 GNU/Linux
lsmod output below also.

I am getting intermittent failures of sound, which I
am only able to resolve by rebooting - I realize there
may be a less drastic approach but newbies like me
lack the detailed understanding to do it any other way
:-)
When I reboot for this reason I see the message:
    i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?
which I have looked up but am intimidated by the
developer-speak in the hits I find.

I've tried to install alsa (via synaptic) but it
complained about not finding any sound card.  The T23
clearly does have a sound card, it uses the Intel 810
chipset and OSS finds it OK.  I must be missing
something there.

I get the impression that moving to a 2.6 kernel with
alsa might fix things - but how likely is it I can do
that without breaking anything?  Would that upgrade be
a sensible move? Is it really as simple as apt-get
install kernel-<whatever>?

lsmod:
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1           2780   0  (autoclean)
isofs                  22996   0  (autoclean)
apm                     8364   1  (autoclean)
ds                      5844   2
parport_pc             19432   1  (autoclean)
lp                      5540   0
parport                21608   1  [parport_pc lp]
af_packet              11048   1  (autoclean)
i810_rng                2368   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               19504   0  (unused)
usbcore                52268   1  [usb-uhci]
ide-scsi                8272   0
scsi_mod               86020   1  [ide-scsi]
e100                   42868   1
yenta_socket            8804   2
pcmcia_core            38020   0  [ds yenta_socket]
agpgart                39108   0  (unused)
i810_audio             21372   2
ac97_codec             11252   0  [i810_audio]
soundcore               3268   2  [i810_audio]
ide-cd                 27040   0
cdrom                  26212   0  [ide-cd]
rtc                     5768   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   65388   1  (autoclean)
jbd                    34628   1  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect               288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ide-disk               12416   2  (autoclean)
piix                    7784   1  (autoclean)
ide-core               91800   2  (autoclean)
[ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect ide-disk piix]
unix                   12720 173  (autoclean)

Thanks for any advice.

Mark Scott


		
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