Replacing old kernel in testing

["Patrick Wiseman" <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

Hi, all:

I have just installed a new testing system on my new ThinkPad T61p.
Sound doesn't work, which is apparently a known issue with kernel
2.6.22.  The last stable kernel at kernel.org is 2.6.24.3, and I've
read that this sound problem has been corrected.  Is there any reason,
as I tend to compile a custom kernel anyway (the Debian way), not to
download the source from kernel.org and compile.  Or do I lose
something by going out of the official distribution?

Patrick