Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec

[Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>]

Hi

I'm trying to get this sound "card" to work with 2.4.18 Woody kernel, and I 
tried ac97_codec.o  i810_audio.o  soundcore.o kernel drivers, which lead to a 
very peculiar barely audible sound (like a modulated system beep).

I also heard of the reports of people using ALSA on this laptop, so I 
installed alsa-drivers-0.9: `modprobe snd-intel8x0` succeeds, but xmms gives 
an error: "oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device"

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Oleg
P.S. I'm attaching MS Windows description of the device.


[Sound Device]

Item    Value
Name    Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec
Manufacturer    SigmaTel
Status  OK
PNP Device ID   PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2485&SUBSYS_117710CF&REV_02\3&61AAA01&0&FD
I/O Port        0x00001000-0x000010FF
I/O Port        0x00001880-0x000018BF
IRQ Channel     IRQ 11
Driver  c:\windows\system32\drivers\stac97fj.sys (5.10.7159, 95.98 KB (98,288 
bytes), 11/22/2002 5:12 PM)