sarge 2.6.8 kernel, ALSA ESS1869 No Sound

[Colin Tuckley <colin@tuckley.org>]

I'm running sarge and the 2.6.8-1-386 kernel.

My ancient laptop has an ESS 1869 ISA sound card built in.

The sound doesn't work and when I start KDE I get a message that says:

"Error while initialising sound driver device: default can't be opened for 
playback"

I've run alsaconf and get the following:

  ajp:/etc/modprobe.d# alsaconf
  Unloading sound driver modules...done.
  Probing legacy cards..   This may take a few minutes..
  Probing:  es18xx : FOUND!!

  grep: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base: No such file or directory

  Running update-modules...
  Loading driver...
  FATAL: Error inserting snd_es18xx
  (/lib/modules/2.6.8-1-386/kernel/sound/isa/snd-es18xx.ko): No such device
  Setting default volumes...

I suspect this means the driver isn't built - any ideas where to get it from 
or how to build it? The only alsa-modules package I could find seems to be 
for a 2.4 kernel.

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