audio probs yet

Greetings all;

I am on mdv2010.1-x64, and I believe up to date.

I finally did get it so I at least get a thump out of the speakers when udev 
starts during the boot.  In pavucontrol, only one channel works, and its 
uncontrollable, at full volume, so the new mail bongs are both over loud and 
quite distorted.

Does this sound as if it is ever going to be fixable?, (it has been an 
intermittent battle since late January, mostly with dead silence) or if not, 
how have I nuke enough of pulse to give me back the usual alsa and kmix type 
controls?

Thats question #1.

Question #2:  I've been building my own kernels since forever, but on a 32 
bit system.  Can I bring the full tree of linux-2.6.33.1 over, do a make 
clean and using the existing config for this hardware, build it back up as a 
64 bit kernel?  That way I can get rid of the intel-hd stuff that confuses 
pulse, making it choose the audio on my video card, an ati 2400HD Pro, but 
which is not even bonded out to an output connections on the card, and I can 
also make it ignore the motherboard audio by not building its modules.  I 
have an SB Audigy-2 Live 24 bit pci card that works buckets better than the 
imitation stuff ASUS puts on it motherboards.

Thanks for any help.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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