> I could easily have something buggered up in the kernel, or
> completely missing too....

So a check for ALSA in the kernel should be the next step. The 
ALSA utils can do nothing as long there's no ALSA support in 
the kernel.

But maybe your chip isn't supported by ALSA?

Check your kernel config, build and install it anew and run 
ALSAconf. If it fails then, you'd like to disable ALSA in the 
kernel and chack out OSS support instead.


 Best regards


    ce

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