Es1988 Allegro-1 Detected but not working

Sound does not work on ES1988 Allegro-1 (onboard), device is detected by linux bus does not work. I have unmuted the volume tried serveral different sound subsystems but failed to get it working.

When I go to System - Preferences - Sound, soundcard shows up as ESS Allegro PCI.

Applications - Sound and Video - Volume Control produces:
Can adjust volume, has no effect.

All tests for Multimedia System Selector work, whether ALSA, ESD, OSS but I dont hear anything!

ESS1988 Allegro-1 shows up in the Device Manager

lspci shows :
bosscher@School:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 12)
0000:00:02.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 08)
0000:00:02.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 20)
0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
0000:00:12.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 10)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

aplay -l shows :
bosscher@School:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCI [ESS Allegro PCI], device 0: Allegro [Allegro]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

lsmod :
bosscher@School:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
rfcomm 34972 0
l2cap 22404 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 43012 4 rfcomm,l2cap
speedstep_lib 4228 0
cpufreq_userspace 4444 0
cpufreq_stats 5124 0
freq_table 4484 1 cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
cpufreq_ondemand 5916 0
cpufreq_conservative 6820 0
video 16004 0
tc1100_wmi 6916 0
sony_acpi 5516 0
pcc_acpi 11392 0
hotkey 9508 0
dev_acpi 11396 0
i2c_acpi_ec 5760 0
button 6672 0
battery 9604 0
container 4608 0
ac 4996 0
ipv6 217408 6
af_packet 20232 2
pcspkr 3652 0
rtc 11832 0
floppy 52692 0
snd_maestro3 23332 2
snd_ac97_codec 72188 1 snd_maestro3
snd_pcm_oss 46368 0
snd_mixer_oss 16128 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78344 4 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21764 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10120 1 snd_pcm
snd 48644 9 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9184 1 snd
i2c_viapro 7696 0
i2c_core 19728 2 i2c_acpi_ec,i2c_viapro
pci_hotplug 24628 0
via_agp 9472 1
agpgart 32328 1 via_agp
evdev 9088 0
tsdev 7616 0
piix 9476 0
psmouse 26116 0
mousedev 10912 1
parport_pc 31812 1
lp 11460 0
parport 32072 2 parport_pc,lp
md 40656 0
ext3 115976 2
jbd 48536 1 ext3
dm_mod 50364 4
thermal 13192 0
processor 23100 1 thermal
fan 4740 0
ne2k_pci 10464 0
8390 9088 1 ne2k_pci
uhci_hcd 28048 0
usbcore 104316 2 uhci_hcd
ide_cd 36996 0
cdrom 33952 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 16128 3
ide_generic 1664 0
via82cxxx 12188 1
ide_core 125268 5 piix,ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,via82cxxx
unix 24624 616
vesafb 8088 0
capability 5000 0
commoncap 6784 1 capability
vga16fb 12232 1
vgastate 8320 1 vga16fb
softcursor 2432 2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbimgblt 2944 2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbfillrect 3840 2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbcopyarea 4480 2 vesafb,vga16fb
fbcon 34176 72
tileblit 2560 1 fbcon
font 8448 1 fbcon
bitblit 5248 1 fbcon

esd :
bosscher@School:~$ esd
esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
/tmp/.esd-1000/socket
This socket already exists indicating esd is already running.
Exiting...