I installed slack a couple months ago and it found my SBLive automatically... I was like cool and didn't configure anything... so anyway... I have noticed a couple problems lately with it... like as of thi smoment only the back left and right speakers are producing sound... and at times the quality of the speakers drop... i am wondering what this is... anyone have any suggestions

00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a)

Which version are you using?
When you're using a 2.6.x kernel including the newest alsa version 1.0.3 there's a bug in the implementation. I had the same problem with SuSE 9.1. I found the fix in the German SuSE mailinglist. The alsa sound module will be fixed with the next release. Meanwhile you have to fix and recompile the kernel modules:

change to the Linux kernel sources, then
cd sound/pci/ac97

edit the source file ac97-codec.c

the line
{ 0x83847658, 0xffffffff, "STAC9758/59", patch_sigmatel_stac9758, NULL },

should be
{ 0x83847658, 0xffffffff, "STAC9758/59", NULL, NULL },

instead.

Recompile kernel and modules afterwards and install the newly created kernel and modules. Afterwards it works

Dirk

Slackware now uses ALSA by default, so building the latest alsa should fix any bugs, and setting up a proper ~/a.soundrc will help matters if bugs are not the problem.

ok, I will try it

When I tryed to install the newest alsa drivers i got an error during make... I forgot the error but I can get it if needed.. just was like error [1]

We need to see the error, so if you can post it in all its glory.

make[3]: *** [fastdep] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/merlyn/alsa-driver-1.0.5a/pcmcia/pdaudiocf'
make[2]: *** [_sfdep_pdaudiocf] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlyn/alsa-driver-1.0.5a/pcmcia'
make[1]: *** [dep] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlyn/alsa-driver-1.0.5a'
make: *** [include/sndversions.h] Error 2

Right, you don't need to build the pcmcia modules - only the SB Live 5.1 module, all the instructions are in the package that you downloaded.

I downloaded the package from alsaproject.org... so I was just making everything... any idea where to get teh SBLive package

Yes, the SB Live module is part of the alsa drivers package, read the instructions and they will tell you how to compile that module only.