I have an Ensoniq ES1371. I'm still using the standard 2.4 kernel from Slackware 10.2, so the kernel modules that came with it include ES1371.

modprobe loads that module without problems (after I fix the dependencies) And I can get playback from some programs. Although I think it may be using OSS, not sure.

But it's for sure that ALSA won't recognize my device:

There's plenty of things in /dev/snd/ , but I'm not 100% on what I'm supposed to look for here.

If I try to bring up ALSA with the rc file:

Opening up rc.alsa shows that line 38 is:

Any help would be appreciated.

Disregard the blather about rc.alsa:

It appears that sudo is not sufficient to run the rc scripts. There is no error message when I run rc.alsa after I su root .

I've noticed some things similar to this while running sudo. I try to use su, and even sometimes that is fustrating.

Every once inawhile, I disconnect from the network, and actually login as root...

The moral? You just gotta do what you gotta do...

Glad you got it working, plus posting your method so others can get some info on there own issues.

And Welcome to Slackware!

Actually, I didn't get it working. Restarting rc.alsa does *not* fix the problem.

alsamixer still isn't finding the device, alsaconf still isn't detecting the PCI card.

Post the results of

~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a)
02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 09)
02:0d.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem

That could be the issue....

I have had my winmodem take over the alsa setup, with results close to what you have.

Do a forum search on alsa+modem. there is a thread that somebody posted in that resolved this by editing some files...

Actually, I really will never use that modem, so I took it out of the bus and rebooted.

Same problem.

I use the "enlightened sound daemon" and it's kind of glitchy, but anyway, sometimes I have to restart my sound after playing a game, or stupid amarok crashes

So i just added to my /etc/sudoers the following:

Then made a "sudo" script and just double click on it and boom works every time.

now for your sound, I've got one old pc here that I have to key in my alsa settings. It's a different card then yours, but you'll at leaset get an idea, and maybe some1 here can help you figure out your settings to key in. These correspond to the actual port settings in my bios, which you will need to get for yourself from your motherboard. You would put in the different sound card obviously. Also, I think your card is "isa" and not pci FWIW.