ALSA Problems

[Jason Martens <me@jasonmartens.com>]

I have a debian testing system that will be my mythtv, as soon as I can 
get the sound working.  I had it working previously with Fedora Core 1, 
but decided to move to a much better distro.

I think I have alsa configured correctly, but for some reason, it 
doesn't detect the sound card.  My motherboard (Abit KV7, KT 600) has 
built-in audio, which is detected by Alsaconf as a via82xx 
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller.  It detects it, and adds (what 
I think) are the proper modules to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.  Here is a 
listing of my loaded snd modules:

mythtv:/proc/asound# lsmod | grep snd
snd_mixer_oss          20416  0
snd_via82xx            30820  0
snd_ac97_codec         70660  1 snd_via82xx
gameport                5376  1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart         8896  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            26496  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8712  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_bt87x              15304  0
snd_pcm               101920  2 snd_via82xx,snd_bt87x
snd_timer              27460  1 snd_pcm
snd                    60132  10 
snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc         12168  3 snd_via82xx,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm
soundcore              11168  5 snd,bttv,via82cxxx_audio,sound

However, it can't detect any cards:
mythtv:/proc/asound# cat cards
--- no soundcards ---

All alsa commands fail, and I get nothing out of my speakers.  I'm not 
sure what to try next, any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason