[Alsa-user] Dead NM256AV turns laptop into doorstop

[Ken R. <ke...@re...>]

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Well I just discovered that my NM256AV woes are even worse. 

I tried to find a PCMCIA sound card to use, cheerily thinking that I'll just work around the fact that both the ALSA and OSS drivers for the NM256AV lock up my laptop.

There *are* no supported PCMCIA sound cards in Linux. Auugh!

Well, I can type stuff and read stuff, so I suppose that isn't so bad. But as for watching movies, listening to music, etc, I'm utterly screwed.

Last desperate plea: has anyone successfully recovered from this kind of thing?  I mean, I'm not an EE. Is it even possible for a laptop sound chip actually *die* so completely that it freezes up the CPU? Or is this really a bug in the driver somewhere?

- -ken
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