Rene Herman wrote:

> I'll poke around some more to confirm the documentation was right about 
> the Legacy Audio bit. I see the SB-EMU can be set to 0x240 and that's 
> free here, so I'll try and see for which setting of the bit something 
> appears there.

Managed to already. Yes, confirmed, the documentation was right. snd-sb8 
actually loads for this emulation:

ALSA sound/isa/sb/sb_common.c:130: SB [0x240]: DSP chip found, version = 3.2

So anyways, the submitted patch, re-attached for convenience, was right.

Rene.