I have two laptops: Dell inspiron 8000 and an AMD 64 from xtrementoebooks. The Dell worked just fine after I rebuilt the 2.6.4 kernel to include the hdsp driver and built alsa-lib and utils(hdsploader/hdspmixer). No problem really. The AMD on the otherhand is having some trouble. I dont know if the driver is different. In the Dell during boot the kernel finds the multiface and says its waiting for firmware which hdsploader provides. The AMD64\'s kernel (2.6.8.1) finds the cardbus but not the multiface and also says its waiting for firmware. But once I run hdsploader the kernel gives me Ooops, which is the worst message the kernel can give you. The problems with the AMD64 may be that hdsploader isint uising the correct pointer size because of the 64 bit thing, who knows... But the Dell worked just fine! My advice: If you want to get up and running without much trouble get an x86-32. Good Luck, -thewade
