[Alsa-user] SiS7012 installation problems

[Jeff C. <li...@mo...>]

Hi, everyone -

I'm running Debian's testing distribution with the 2.4.19 kernel on an 
ABIT SR7-8X. The motherboard has an on-board SiS 7012 audio 
controller. From lspci:

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 
SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)

I'm having some trouble getting sound to work. When I stop the alsa 
driver using "/etc/init.d/alsa force-stop", it tells me alsa wasn't 
running. When I start it using /etc/init.d/alsa start", it doesn't 
complain at all. However, "ls /proc/asound" shows that there's no 
/proc/asound, and alsamixer dies while trying to open the devices in 
/proc/asound/dev.

First off, here's a very basic question: does the alsa 
snd-card-intel8x0 module completely replace the kernel i810_audio 
module, or does it require the kernel module to also be loaded?

thanks very much,
Jeff