(after a *lot* of messing around...)

There seem to be two sets of maestro3 kernel modules - the one at
/lib/modules/2.6.11/kernel/sound/oss/maestro3.ko
and the one at
/lib/modules/2.6.11/kernel/sound/pci/snd-maestro3.ko

The first one of these hangs when you try to play sound. This is the
module which gets used by default.

If you use the "alsa" cheatcode when booting, it doesn't load this module.

Then from a root command line type:
modprobe snd_maestro3
and it will load the ALSA modules instead. These work, but are
initialized to volume=0, and are silent initially.

I tried "alsa=maestro3" cheatcode, but this doesn't load the module
either.

What is the correct cheatcode to use the alsa module?