alsa prob on sid vaio r505

["Robert D. Crawford" <rdc1x@comcast.net>]

I am a newbie to debian, but have been running linux for several years.  I
have just installed sid on my vaio r505 and cannot get alsa to work.  I
upgraded the kernel to 2.6.4 per the instructions in Debian Reference
chapter 7 with help from

http://www.geocities.com/torus2000/linux_on_PCG-R505GL.html

(I barely modified his .config).  Here is output from various commands:

laptop:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4# grep SOUND .config | grep -v ^#
CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
laptop:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4# grep SND .config | grep -v ^#
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y

I have installed alsa-base, alsa-utils, and alsa-source.  Alsa is running.

laptop:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
sr_mod                 16292  0
sbp2                   24712  0
ntfs                  101996  0
msdos                  11008  0
sg                     34720  0
ide_scsi               15492  0
raw1394                38636  0
hid                    25408  0
ohci1394               42244  0
i810                   70188  0
usbkbd                  7552  0
laptop:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4# modprobe i810_audio
FATAL: Module i810_audio not found.
laptop:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4# locate i810_audio
/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4/sound/oss/i810_audio.c
laptop:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4#

laptop:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4# grep i810 /var/log/messages
Mar 22 07:45:40 laptop kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0xe8000000
128MB
Mar 22 07:45:40 laptop kernel: [drm] Initialized i810 1.1.0 20010616 on
minor 0
Mar 22 07:45:40 laptop kernel: i810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0x18c0 and
0x1c00, IRQ 9
Mar 22 07:45:40 laptop kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6
channels.Mar 22 07:45:40 laptop kernel: i810_audio: only 48Khz playback
available.
Mar 22 07:45:40 laptop kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP,
total channels = 2
Mar 22 07:45:40 laptop kernel: i810_audio: timed out waiting for codec 1
analog ready.
laptop:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4#

What am I missing here?

Thanks,

rdc

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