AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working

[Elijah <desiderata@softhome.net>]

Hello there, 


I want to configure my AC97 card since I just removed my c-media to make
room for my tv-tuner. I added the ac97_codec in my modules to make it
work, but it doesn't. So I found this alsa thing, downloaded it,
installed the libraries and tools I left the driver alone since after
compiling several times it just would'nt work. I've already tried
sndconfig, worked once with the test but after installing the
alsa-drivers I don't hear anything anymore ...

here's from lspci:

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Valhalla:/home/elijah# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo
PRO133x] (rev 44)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo
MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
(rev 22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
Controller (rev 20)
00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev
11)
00:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 11)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10
MBit (rev 31)
00:14.0 USB Controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device 5802
(rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device
0171 (rev a3)
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I also seem to have soundcore loaded up from lsmod ...

I did what I can, compiled kernel but reverted back to old one, still
stuck though ... can anybody help?

Elijah