[lug] AC97 sound on recent kernel?

[Bear Giles]

Has anyone else had problems with AC97 sound and recent kernels, and 
more importantly fixed it?  I haven't had sound for years except for one 
short-lived system.  Not entirely a bad thing when you run into a 
website with a loud sound track. ;-)

I know that the on-board sound is from an 'AC97' chip and there used to 
be two flavors in the kernel.  I had just recompiled the kernel with the 
second version when I fried my last motherboard.

The new kernel, from Debian testing, only has one AC97 driver.  No sound 
though.  It's definitely not the speakers or plugging the speakers in 
the wrong place.