[lug] AC97 sound on recent kernel?

[Bear Giles]

Nate Duehr wrote: 
> What kind of chipset are you running and on what kernel/distro?  I'll 
> try to help...
>
> By the way, the "forever fix" for Linux audio issues seems to be... 
> "Buy a cheap SB Live card and disable the on-board sound".  They 
> always work right.  :-)
It's a SiS chip, which the 2.6.17 kernel says it supports.

Let me back up a step.  What's a decent modern (non-alsa) MP3 player?  
Let's make sure that data is actually getting to the sound device.