Problems in RH 9 with alsa and esd oss works fine (VIA VT8233)
 

When running programs that uses esd (and a lot of them does) they freeze often crashing X as well.

When trying to start esd it will also freeze (though not X) with a scratchy noice..

When running xmms I can only use oss output.. arts, esd, alsa does not work. When selecting alsa I get the error "snd_mixer_attach no such device".

I have appended my modules.conf below.. Please anyone what is wrong?
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alias CDCEther off
alias acm off

alias eth0 8139too
alias usb0 usbdnet

alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci


alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
alias sound via82cxxx_audio
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
post-install sound-slot-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

alias char-major-195 nvidia

Hmmm... I'm also having trouble with my sound. Onboard sound on a K7VM2 motherboard from ASrock. I am using the standard driver snd-via82xx and it works apart from periodic scratching noises (with approx. 1 second period).

I tried to change the driver to the one you use (via82cxxx_audio) and got much of the behavior you describe, so I changed back to snd-via82xx. I just figured that you might have better luck with this driver to...

As of my own scratching noises it is definitely a driver problem since it works fine in window$.

good luck, kamstrup