nm256 woes

[Darrell Esau]

Hello all,

I recently installed FC2 Test 2 (upgraded from FC1) onto an older Sony laptop 
(VAIO PCG-F340).

After the update, the sound doesn't work.  The chipset is a neomagic 256.  The 
module is getting loaded and the system thinks sound is working.  In fact, 
when a sound is supposed to be played, there is static and some "static" 
horizontal bars display on the screen for the duration of the sound static.

I've seen this problem before with previous kernels (I beleve 2.2 and 2.4 had 
issues with this.. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't).

I went back to FC1 and "yum updated" the system -- the problem still exists.  
I'm not sure why/how it was working before.

I've seen with Suse that there's some "Sony VAIO Tweak" which can be set for 
the nm256 kernel module -- when I set this it works with suse.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

Thx,
d