sound card detection: no test sound

[THUFIR HAWAT <hawat thufir gmail com>]

>From Gnome:
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The following audio device was detected.
Vendor: Silicon
Model: Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller
Module: snd-intel8x0

from the terminal:
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[thufir localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[thufir localhost ~]$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.9-1.667 (bhcomp    tweety build redhat com) (gcc
version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST
2004
[thufir localhost ~]$

I'm looking at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/x320.html#AEN415>,
but it seems to be about recompiling the kernel. since the test sound
was working just last week, and I haven't done anything to the kernel,
that doesn't seem to apply. Real Player 10 played a .wav file last
week, I don't believe I installed any software since.

thanks,

Thufir