I just switched my computer over to Linux full time a couple weeks ago with the aid of JAMD. While certainly nice, fast, and easy to use, it wasn't as flexable as I wanted, so I decided to wipe it out and give Slackware 9.1 a try.

Thanks to my Dell's Aureal Vortex 1 sound card, I've never had sound in Linux. But according to the sf.net project for the Aureal cards, it is now supported in ALSA 0.97b and above. So with high hopes I used Swaret to upgrade alsa to 0.98.

Unfortunately I need to do more it seems, as I still get all the same errors as before. alsaconf couldn't find anything.

I've done a number of searches here at LQ, and tried a few suggestions that sounded like they would apply, without success. The closest one I found to my problem was this one:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...readid=101926&

However I am not having much luck with it.

When I get to the part where he says "Next you can use modprobe snd-au8810." I get the following:

# modprobe snd-au8810
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22/modules.dep
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-au8810

Am I even on the right track?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Ok, I looked through the alsa documentation and it looks like I missed something important by using swaret so I went back and compiled the alsa drivers myself.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...&module=au8820

Everything went fine till I did a modprobe snd-au8820

Then I got this:
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/pci/au88x0/snd-au8820.o: unresolved symbol snd_mpu401_uart_interrupt
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/pci/au88x0/snd-au8820.o: unresolved symbol snd_ac97_mixer
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/pci/au88x0/snd-au8820.o: unresolved symbol snd_mpu401_uart_new
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/pci/au88x0/snd-au8820.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/pci/au88x0/snd-au8820.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/pci/au88x0/snd-au8820.o: insmod snd-au8820 failed

And if I try to use alsamixer I still get:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

Not sure if this info will help, but here is my lsmod output.

# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-seq-oss 26112 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3264 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 33648 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-seq-device 3904 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq]
snd-pcm-oss 37092 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-pcm 56064 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer 13444 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 6004 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-mixer-oss 12016 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd 29956 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer-oss]
soundcore 3332 2 (autoclean) [snd]
lp 6752 0 (autoclean)
parport 23264 0 (autoclean) [lp]
uhci 24496 0 (unused)
usbcore 58400 1 [uhci]
8139too 15240 1
mii 2304 0 [8139too]
crc32 2880 0 [8139too]
pcmcia_core 40032 0
ide-scsi 9424 0
agpgart 39576 0 (unused)

Ok, with yet more searching I found what I needed:
http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-dev.../msg09813.html

Worked like a charm.