I have tried all sorts of things to get the darned sound working. I have been at it for some time. I have tried getting new modules, I have tried modifying menu.lst with acpi=off, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling alsa. I have gone through all kinds of troubleshooting manuals. I don't know what else to do. I am determined though. If there is anyone here that is really good at solving this stuff, I could really use your help. I am running Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.

Here is an article on my computer which has all the hardware info from someone who got it to work with pclinuxos: http://pclinuxoshwdb.com/index.php?o...=887&Itemid=63

Also, I have noted that /conf/asound is completely empty. I have suspected that maybe that was it, but I really have no idea if that means anything or how to fix it.

Here is my lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)

Did your compiled module load properly and detect the sound card ? (ALSA) [see dmesg output]
This may look silly but it so happens that when a sound module is loaded, the sound is muted. So you have to use aumix or something equivalent and increase the sound and then check if the soundcard is working ...
Your card looks like SoundBlaster and I think there must not be any trouble with this type of card.

Yes, I have checked the volume many times. Bars are all the way up, and it is not muted. As far as I can tell the card has been detected properly. I have used the "test sound" option in the system settings area to test the sound several times after loading modules and this and that, with no luck. I am considering updating the kernel to see if that helps.