Qosmio F20 with Vista RTM

I have successfully installed Windows Vista RTM on my Qosmio F20-155 device. The installation went smooth and everything is fine.
I have the following problems which I suppose are common with everyone else:
- No SD card support
- Waiting for new nVidia card drivers
- Fn keys and media keys don't work
However, something I'm not very sure everyone is experiencing is that absence of sound support. Vista recognized the sound card is "SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio". However, I can't hear any sound from my speakers. I tried forcing another driver (that of Tecra, found on the support site), but Vista would fire a BSOD and die. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with my notebook because the Qosmio player can output sound normally (from outside Windows).
Anyone having the same problem? And do you think the RTM drivers are gonna be late?

The driver for Windows Vista seems to be functional :)
As I've seen mentioned somewhere else, I did not have sound on Windows Vista because I installed it while I had the sound muted on Windows XP. When I installed XP MCE on another partition, and un-muted the sound, Windows Vista was able to produce sound properly :)

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I appreciate your taking the time to report back your
findings about Vista. Perhaps it will be helpful to those that are
early adopters.
You stated:
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visiting the peer-to-peer support forums. This means users
supporting users. If you are concerned that Adobe is aware of this
issue, you should really consider using a different channel. The
Wish Form. And you can easily get there by simply
clicking
here.
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it seems to me that businesses are very slow to adopt things. They
tend to take a very pragmatic and slow approach. Many are just now
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Picture in Action

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