no sound with 2.6.3, nForce2, and ALSA

[Tom Schutter <t.schutter@att.net>]

I am having no luck getting sound to work.  I have a ASUS A7N8X
motherboard with the NVIDIA nForce2 chipset.  I am running the 2.6.3
kernel on sarge.

I am getting no sound at all.  If I play a .wav file using aplay, it
pauses for a few seconds and then returns to a command prompt.

I have tried different cables and speakers with no luck.

Any help would be appreciated!

$ uname -a
Linux pixel 2.6.3-1-k7 #2 Tue Feb 24 20:39:50 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

$ dmesg | grep intel8x0
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49228 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 47417

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [nForce2        ]: NFORCE - NVidia nForce2
                     NVidia nForce2 at 0xe9000000, irq 21

$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_intel8x0

$ cat /proc/asound/card0/intel8x0
Intel8x0

Global control        : 0x00000002
Global status         : 0x00300100
AC'97 codecs ready    : primary

$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.2c (Thu Feb 05
15:41:49 2004 UTC).
Compiled on Feb 21 2004 for kernel 2.6.3-1-k7.

$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_oss            34624  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      7936  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                55312  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            53732  0 
snd_mixer_oss          19840  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           34088  2 
snd_ac97_codec         62724  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm               100196  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              25924  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
gameport                4736  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_page_alloc         12164  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         7872  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            25120  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8136  3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    55780  13
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10272  2 snd

$ amixer sget Line
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Front Left: Playback 29 [94%] [on] Capture [off]
  Front Right: Playback 30 [97%] [on] Capture [off]

$ ls -l /dev/audio0 /dev/dsp0 /dev/mixer0
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   4 Jul 26  2003 /dev/audio0
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Jul 26  2003 /dev/dsp0
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   0 Jul 26  2003 /dev/mixer0

$ groups
tom tape audio users