honestly i'm not making any of this up.
i downloaded the free GTA release so i could try it on the vaio. windows was complaining that the sound card didn't work, which was weird because it used to. i rebooted, tried reinstalling directx, etc. to no avail. i booted linux to see if it worked there, and it complained about something not being able to initialize, and /dev/dsp didn't work.
so i went in the bios, and turned on the "logo motion" which makes the sony logo at POST animate and make a little noise.
i boot, and it does't make the noise!
so i go back, for some random reason i turn on "PNP OS" and reboot, and it makes the little noise and windows is happy. i play the game and turn it off since GTA1 sucks.
since my vaio stopped receiving pcmcia interrupts in linux, and i wanted to try my friends' new beta release (i tried looking for a link to some sort of announcement other than the one on the cfs homepage, but couldn't find one), i broke down and ordered a linksys usb wavelan dingus from amazon. however, that was before this sound fiasco, so i figured i may as well try the pcmcia stuff again.
so i go boot the stock phoebe2 kernel, and use the wavelan modules from the lustre kernel, since the phoebe2 ones have unresolved MODVERSION symbols (which is why i never use it). SURPRISE SURPRISE the stupid thing works.
i'd like to say that buying a usb dingus made it work, but i think this really is the story of how GTA fixed my linux pcmcia problems.
anyway i spent a few hours building/rebuilding lustre bits for the beta, but haven't had much success. when i run ls on the remote mount, i still get -14. when i cvs up in my web dir on the local mount, i get an LBUG. i might try bugging them tomorrow when they aren't partying or sleeping.
speaking of sleep, somehow it got to be 4 AM.
(oh and congrats to the evo team who recently had a beta release as well)