First, my config quickly. 900Mhz Athlon, 700+mb, SB Live!, Nvidia Ti-4200.
Running Debian-Sarge and 2.6.5 kernel.

Second this is a sound question but I have sound working. Woo-Hoo!

BUT: I'm trying to be proactive and use udev. But I think maybe udev gave me a few too many devices. If I start up alsamixergui, I see 4 headphones, 4 wav controls, 10 EMU PCM, 2 PCM, 8 IEC598s (what the heck is that???) and just a bunch of stuff on my mixer control. WHY?!! Most of them don't do anything.

Understand, in many ways I'm flying blind. Or maybe blind bull in a chinashop is better. I'm charging in with all kinds of apt-get goodness, not really knowing what I'm getting. I'm pretty handy with Linux, but there's an awful lot to keep track of. So could somone explain a little about whats happening?

Also, I just assumed that somehow udev was creating all these devices that the mixer is trying to control. Maybe that isn't true?

Any help would be appreciated.

Drew

All this stuff is normal. You seem to have a good soundcard.

51 controllers doesn't seem normal to me. Especially since most of them aren't actually doing anything (i.e., sound does not change when I adjust them).