> their value ranges. Nothing told me were I could look to find what I
> needed to set the parameters to.

Maybe it's no help for you, but I'm using alsa for sound with the same
module
(snd-via82xx) and is working great. First time I tried the oss driver
but that
didn't work. After installing alsa I had to raise pcm volume to
something
between 50% and 100% because the master volume wasn't enough. So now
it's working
ok without any parameters.
Sound card: SoundMax (onboard)
Slackware version: 10.0