hi muggins,
its and 'rm cy25' though i think the specs are the same as the samsung model. no option to test sound with bios, and while were on the subject the bios, 'pheonix', is crap, poor options. the speaker 'pops' when the laptop turns on and off, thats it.
from what i can gather, alsa is able to identify the soundcard, load the relevent modules, but then cannot configure them, and as a result unloads them. Why this happens is beyond me. I tried asking the guys on irc chat, but they just got shirty and started abusing me, nice chaps that they are.
rjbrewer, thanks for suggestion, i have tried these settings with no luck , though i am continuing to try combinations of blacklisted modules, to see if there is a bad one.
