CentOS - Sep 2007 - Sound problems on envidia 6510 in Compaq SR5110NX

I've go a Compaq Presario (SR5110NX) that I've loaded CentOS 5 on and
all is well except for the sound card.  I understand that OSS supports
the chipset but it's not being detected an loaded properly and I've
invested a significant amount of time already.  I've probably got an old
supported card lying around here somewhere but I hat to give up on the
principal.  I would rather not download the proprietary drivers as that
will create a dependency when the kernel is upgraded and I'm shipping
this off to a remote law office where I'd like them to be a little more
self sufficient than having to have me log in and recompile each time
they upgrade a kernel.  Any experience or advise with this would be
appreciated.

Regards,
Chuck

Following up to myself, I have ruled out a hardware problem by booting
the Fedora 7 Live CD and confirming that he card works under that
distro.  I used the F7 /etc/modprobe.conf as a cheat sheet but still am
not getting audio under CentOS 5.  I listed the loaded modules after
rebooting and found that the sound drivers still had not loaded in spite
of the modified modprobe.conf:

alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
alias eth0 forcedeth
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0

I ran modprobe snd-card-0 and all of the expected modules loaded as they
did under F7 but still no audio output.

I checked to be sure kudzu was seeing the device and it is:
# kudzu -p
........
class: AUDIO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
desc: "nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio"
vendorId: 10de
deviceId: 03f0
subVendorId: 103c
subDeviceId: 2a5c
pciType: 1
pcidom:    0
pcibus:  0
pcidev:  5
pcifn:  0
'''''''''

I want to stay on CentOS for stability and longevity reasons.

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:24 -0400, Chuck Mattern wrote:
> I've go a Compaq Presario (SR5110NX) that I've loaded CentOS 5 on
and
> all is well except for the sound card.  I understand that OSS supports
> the chipset but it's not being detected an loaded properly and I've
> invested a significant amount of time already.  I've probably got an
old
> supported card lying around here somewhere but I hat to give up on the
> principal.  I would rather not download the proprietary drivers as that
> will create a dependency when the kernel is upgraded and I'm shipping
> this off to a remote law office where I'd like them to be a little more
> self sufficient than having to have me log in and recompile each time
> they upgrade a kernel.  Any experience or advise with this would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Chuck
> 
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