Quick question here and I bet someone can answer this one pretty quickly.

I have a Slackware system running 9.0rc1 with kernel version 2.4.20

After numerous online tutorials and discussion forums I finally got my sound card working (SBLive!). It turns out that it was pretty easy.

all I do is goto the driver's directory and type

#depmod -a
#modprobe emu10k1

and it works (I have a general understanding of what these commands actually do).

The problem remains to get the system to do this on startup. I did the usual by adding

alias sound emu10k1

to my modules.conf file. However, when I reboot and lsmod the modules are not loaded.

Does anyone have an idea what I could be doing wrong?

you need to edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file.

You'll see all sorts of references to popular hardware in different catagories commented-out. See if you can find your listed (it probably is) and uncomment it. If not, just add this line yourself :

/sbin/modprobe emu10k1

Also, make sure users have permissions for your sound hardware by running

chmod 666 /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer*

Thanks a lot that looks like it should work. I'll give it a go when I get some time tomorrow after my exam... I'll post later and let you know how it goes...

Ok, I did it and it works great, thanks.