Intel i810 sound?

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

I am installing debian (woody) on a new pc with Intel 845 motherboard.

I have used the XFree 4.3 packages for woody with the 2.4.20 kernel to
get X working.

lsmod shows that the i810_audio module is installed but when I do
something like saytime or saydate I get 

sox: Can't open output file '/dev/audio': Device or resource busy

I have added the user to the group "audio".  At one stage I actually
had some sound but it was very soft.

The alsa-modules for the 2.4.20 kernel are not available for woody.  I
have thought about building woody alsa packages from the unstable
sources but there are too many dependency problems.

Is there a way to get proper sound for this setup on Woody?

Regards.
Johann
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