SusE 8.0 Pro on SONY Vaio FX505

Hi! Anybody on the list with some hands-on experience on SuSE 8.0 Pro on SONY Vaio FX505? I've just installed my copy but no sound! (same happened for a friend on a SONY Vaio FX705. And I need to use an external mouse as touchpas doesn't work. Any solutions? (in despair, I will contact SuSE under the 90 install support schema ...) TIA