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hardware specs:

mainboard: msi k8n neo2 platinum
cpu: amd athlon 64 3200+
vga: r8500 64mb
pci soundcard: soundblaster 128

hello my name is kevin i've been an avid slackware user for over 2 yrs and always was able to google and fix my problems, but recently my brother bought a new computer and because there were free ubuntu cdroms available at the shop where he bought his gear, he grabbed a cd and tried it;

it was weird not having a fully su at first; but thats not why i'm posting this shit
he has 1 pci soundcard installed and another on board but neither one of them gives him sound this is his

>>>lspci:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e1 (rev a1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e0 (rev a2)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e4 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e8 (rev a2)
0000:00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00df (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00ea (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e5 (rev a2)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00ee (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e3 (rev a2)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e2 (rev a2)
0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00ed (rev a2)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE]
0000:02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
0000:02:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
0000:02:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

>>>and lsmod | grep snd returns these values:

snd_ens1371 25088 2
gameport 16392 1 snd_ens1371
snd_rawmidi 27040 1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device 9488 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_intel8x0 34816 1
snd_ac97_codec 87000 2 snd_ens1371,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 51232 0
snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 91020 5 snd_ens1371,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 24200 2 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11408 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_sb_common 17536 0
snd 55784 14 snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm ,snd_timer,snd_sb_common
soundcore 10912 1 snd

Now from my experience when a module shows usage thats higher then 0; its green flag for me aka it 'should' work

Another issue: he is unable to mount samba shares directly in his filesystem with slack this works out of the box, the module smbfs is present but i dont know if the standard ubuntu 5.10 (64bit) kernel allows this as i can remember u have to enable 2 options; if this isnt the case will apt-get will allow me to fetch the kernel sources so i can just make a new kernel with this option enabled or when this is done i should also have to recompile mount utility to enable samba????

help would be appreciated