[Sound] rh 8.0; sis7012; ac97; i810_audio soundcard problems : pls ignore other msg with same sub:

[Rajesh Menon <r_menon1@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi! 
i couldnt wait for the moderator to approve of my
message, so i subscribed now, and here goes ..

im having some issues here with playing sound on my
laptop.
its a p4 running rh8.0:2.4.18-27.8.0

the soundcard that is detected when i do a sndconfig
is a 'sis7012 pci audio accelerator' and the mod is
'i810_audio'.

when i run audio_cd's, it works fine, and i can hear
it.

when i do a sndconfig, it detects my soundcard; but
when it tries to play a test sound, it fails - as in,
i dont hear anything.

so, i can play audio_cds', but nothing else here. what
should i try out?
i did an install of alsa, but i dont know what to do
with it, in case someone thinks i should be using
that, what should i change?

i hope the messages i add below here are enough for
someone out there to tell me what to do.
thanks a lot!

doing a dmesg gives me this towards the end:
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.22, 07:01:56 Mar 14
2003
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:02.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.6
i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0xd800 and 0xdc00, IRQ 10
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x414c:0x4710
(ALC200/200P)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total
channels = 2
ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: 0x5349:0x4c22
(Silicon Laboratory Si3036)
i810_audio: timed out waiting for codec 1 analog
ready.
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2
cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12


lsmod gives me:
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
sr_mod                 18168   0 (autoclean)
i810_audio             25224   1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec             13416   0 (autoclean)
[i810_audio]
soundcore               6532   2 (autoclean)
[i810_audio]
autofs                 13348   0 (autoclean) (unused)
ds                      8712   1
yenta_socket           12960   1
pcmcia_core            54784   0 [ds yenta_socket]
sis900                 16876   1
iptable_filter          2412   0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables              15224   1 [iptable_filter]
ide-scsi               10512   0
scsi_mod              107240   2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd                 33608   0
cdrom                  33696   0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ohci1394               20108   0 (unused)
ieee1394               46892   0 [ohci1394]
mousedev                5524   1
keybdev                 2976   0 (unused)
hid                    22244   0 (unused)
input                   5920   0 [mousedev keybdev
hid]
ehci-hcd               17480   0 (unused)
usb-ohci               21320   0 (unused)
usbcore                77024   1 [hid ehci-hcd
usb-ohci]
ext3                   70336   1
jbd                    52212   1 [ext3]


lspci gives me:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
645DX Host
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
5591/5592 AGP
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
85C503/5513 (rev 04)
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated
Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems
[SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 56k
Winmodem (Smart Link HAMR5600 compatible) (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon
Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator
(rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems
[SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems
[SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems
[SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems
[SiS]: Unknown device 7002
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated
Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)
00:08.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus
Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation
NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3)


and finally, my modules.conf reads:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 sis900
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias char-major-195 nvidia
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f
/etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f
/etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :


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