Anyone got the RealTek ALS650 sound to work?

[Tim Wood <tleathley@bigpond.com>]

I just upgraded my system to one with this sound chip.

As far as I can make out it needs a kernel patch. "sndconfig" recognises 
the Via VT8235 Southbridge and audio controller, but assumes that the 
associated sound chip is the Via one.

Has anyone had any success with this under Testing/Unstable. I'm running 
a 2.4.19 kernel.

TIA,
    Tim