I copied the info requested per the Hardware post... I am running Suse 9.3 smp.
I am using a Gateway 7330 Gz and the sound card is listed as a Conexant in windows, however the only driver i found supports the modem section of the card, but not the sound. I really do not want to learn how to program the darn thing... so if anyone has any suggestions....

dmesg
nd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `joystick'
load_module: err 0xfffffffe (dont worry)
snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `joystick'
load_module: err 0xfffffffe (dont worry)
snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `joystick'
load_module: err 0xfffffffe (dont worry)
snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `joystick'
load_module: err 0xfffffffe (dont worry)
snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `joystick'
load_module: err 0xfffffffe (dont worry)
snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `joystick'
load_module: err 0xfffffffe (dont worry)

/sbin/lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:01:05.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
0000:01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
0000:01:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

uname-r
2.6.11.4-21.9-smp

BTW, I do not have a joystick port at all.... use the usb type.

I am having the same issue, different distro though. Were you able to get this resolved? What did you do to make this happen?

I tried several solutions, none of which worked. However, I did doscivoer that my card had Conexant components on it and that no Conexant card is the same in every computer.
Also I was only able to get the modem half of the card to work. One thing to do is get the card info, and go to www.alsa-project.org and look up your card there. If it isn't listed, there probably is not a easily installed or easily found t\for that mnatter driver for it.

Believe it or not it was something pretty trivial. I was looking for a solution and came across this article.

desktoplinux.com/articles/AT9133949670.html
(I can't link, not enough posts)

I followed thier suggestions and it worked slick as a whislte.

I opend KMix, went to the switches tab and turned off External Amplifier.

HTH

I am using PCLinuxOS .93