[PlanetCCRMA] alsa modules i810 on dell laptop?

[jane]

Hello
I'm having fproblems installing alsa on a dell latitude, soundcard

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 01)

I've installed fedora core 1, from the planetccrma site, and have tried
this with both the redhat and planet ccrma modified kernels.

When i run alsaconf i get the following error message, and do not hear any
sound.
Loading driver...
Starting sound driver snd-intel8x0
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.caps.rhfc1.ccrma/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o:
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.caps.rhfc1.ccrma/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o:
insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.caps.rhfc1.ccrma/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o
failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.caps.rhfc1.ccrma/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o:
insmod snd-intel8x0 failed
                                                           [FAILED]
Setting default volumes...
 Saving the mixer setup used for this in /etc/asound.state.
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1061: No soundcards found...

maybe this has to do with oss modules loaded: lsmod gives:
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
snd                    46756   0  (autoclean)
i810_audio             27592   1  (autoclean)
ac97_codec             16776   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore               6468   2  (autoclean) [snd i810_audio]
ide-cd                 34432   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  34592   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
parport_pc             18756   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8612   0  (autoclean)
parport                37088   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 12116   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ds                      8712   2
yenta_socket           13504   2
pcmcia_core            56256   0  [ds yenta_socket]
3c59x                  30736   1
ipt_REJECT              4248   1  (autoclean)
ipt_state               1112   2  (autoclean)
ip_conntrack           28584   1  (autoclean) [ipt_state]
iptable_filter          2444   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              15264   3  [ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_filter]
floppy                 57340   0  (autoclean)
sg                     35468   0  (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod              110312   1  (autoclean) [sg]
microcode               4220   0  (autoclean)
keybdev                 2688   0  (unused)
hid                    23908   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               26156   0  (unused)
usbcore                78784   1  [hid usb-uhci]
mousedev                5300   1  (autoclean)
input                   5888   0  (autoclean) [keybdev hid mousedev]
radeon                119396   1
agpgart                56100   3
ext3                   71716   2
jbd                    51340   2  [ext3]


but if i try /sbin/rmmod i810_audio
i am told:
i810_audio: Device or resource busy

suggestions gratefully received.
tia!
jane