VIA VT82C686B Audio with 7.3

[Brian Hanks]

I have a MSI KT7 Turbo2 motherboard that uses the VIA VT82C686B South Bridge to supply AC '97 audio.  Unfortunately, I have never managed to get it to work. 

The default 7.3 install provided a bunch of tinny echoing noise, but that was about it. 

VIA's drivers suck.  They are all compiled for specific versions of the kernel and they don't provide the source. 

I've tried the alsa drivers and they seemed to work for some time, but for whatever reason they stopped.  All subsequent attempts at installing the alsa drivers have resulted in silence. 

Any ideas on how to get this working again?  Hopefully someone can point me in the correct direction so that I can stop beating my head against this immovable wall.  

Thanks,
Brian