ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]
VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller]

This is what is listed under sound card in Mandrake Control Center. My sound isn't working. Everything works perfect except for the sound. How can I get this working? I am a Linux Newb and need to learn how to do this... Thanks guys.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the ac97 is onboard sound for certain intel motherboards. The best bet to fixing that would be to disable the onboard sound in your BIOS.

well this is what you have to do basically to make life easy install xmms along with the relative playback plugins

[root@localhost nick]# lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO
snd-intel8x0 : Intel Corp.|82801EB AC'97 Audio [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:8086 device:24d5 subv:1462 subd:7430)

this tells you what driver you sound card is using by default all you do is go to mandrake control center in hardware detect look at the current settings of your driver click the run config tool and it will tell you the drivers currently using click on let me pick the i810_aduo compatible driver (of the driver thats closes to yours) then load up xmms hold ctrl+p where it says out put plugin choose perfable esound outplugin click on config check the box that says volume controls OSS mixer and thats it find a mp3 and test it out ... it don't work uncheck the volume control and see what happens

have a nice play