i810/ac97/alsa: no sound

[Fred Bartlett]

I am the proud^H^H^H^H^H owner of a machine with the Intel i810 soundchip. I have installed the ALSA drivers, edited etc/modules.conf, and run modprobe in accordance with the instructions at alsa-project.org, but still have no joy.

redhat-config-soundcard does correctly detect the soundcard; but the test sound doesn't play.

I figure I must be missing something simple. Any clue what it might be?

Thanks!
Fred