this turned out easy, though not sure exactly why.  turned out i just needed 
to enable acpi in the kernel.  

not sure why that made a difference.  but everything works great now.

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Subject: nforce2 sound
Date: Tuesday 04 May 2004 02:23 pm
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Guess nobody else has a similar setup.  I'll try the new Knoppix and see how
 its autodetection works.  Funny thing is that OpenBSD recognizes this card
 with no problem on its generic kernel -- mpg123 works and everything.  Not
 that that has any direct bearing...

Sam
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I've been working on this for a while.  Read everything I could find on the
internet and still not luck.

Here's the deal. Any help would be much appreciated.

I have a Gigabyte gn 7400 pro 2 motherboard.  This motherboard has the
 nforce2 chipset and onboard sound which is supposed to work with the
 intel8x0 module. I'm running debian sid (i.e. unstable) with a self-compiled
 2.6.5 kernel.

i've included the relevant bits of my setup below.  here's the problem

everything seems to load ok and look normal.  i can use alsamixer to move
around volumes and, when i increase the master volume to max i can hear a
hiss in the speakers, which seems to indicate that the volume is in fact
being turned up.

when i use aplay to play wavs it does one of the following -- doesn't play;
plays the wav in a bizzarre repeating loop; plays in a repeating loop at too
low frequency. (the wavs i've been using to test are the wavs from kde). the
fact that it plays at all seems to mean _something_ is working, but i don't
know what.

if i try to use mpg123 or xmms (with alsa or oss plugin) it won't play.  as
in, it doesn't even begin to decode the mp3. (although, if i use the
filewriter output on xmms that works fine, so mp3 is decoding ok).

artsd on kde doesn't work (either in also or toss mode).

cd's play fine, but that's probably not a surprise.

i'm totally stumped. any ideas?

alsa 1.0.4 is installed and my relevant setup is as follows

lsmod:
snd_intel8x0           32324  0
snd_ac97_codec         63044  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            53732  0
snd_mixer_oss          19840  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                95268  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              25860  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11332  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         7872  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            24480  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd                    53412  8
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_m
pu401_uart,snd_rawmidi soundcore              10272  1 snd

lspci:
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97
Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)

/proc/asound/cards:
0 [nForce2        ]: NFORCE - NVidia nForce2
                     NVidia nForce2 at 0xe8001000, irq 9

/proc/asound/devices:
  0: [0- 0]: ctl
  8: [0- 0]: raw midi
 18: [0- 2]: digital audio playback
 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture
 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
 33:       : timer

/etc/modules.conf:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-0
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd-intel8x0 mpu_port=0x330

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