Well, to be honest, I never did. I manually did the modprobe after booting up. I don't know how to create and make a script run automatically. Again, maybe someone else can help us out!

It should be as simple as adding a line to /etc/modules with the name of the module!

So, in your case, add the line
snd-es18xx
to the end of the file /etc/modules.
You will have to have root priveleges to do that, of course.

I would also suggest

man modules
and
man modprobe.conf

for more detail then you will probably understand at first about all
this.

-Ben

One other thing you may not want to hear - that version of Ubuntu is no longer 'supported' so you won't be receiving any security updates. That would make me nervous if it were an internet-connected machine.

On the other hand, the next version of Ubuntu you could upgrade to, 6.06, really won't run, and probably won't install, with only 96M of memory.

-Ben

woo hoo!!!
yesterday i was fiddleing around and got this figured out then you guys updated the thread with your posts.
in simple terms:
log in as root, open the file system go to /etc/modules
it is a document instead, in stead of the modprobe file and you add some of the data from the mod probe to the list of modules

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
psmouse
snd-es18xx

...And Voila! you have sound upon start up. congratufreakinlations i had to try 3 different installs before i could find enough info to get my sound card working right which was the only real problem i experienced.
For the record i was running ubuntu 6.06 lts. v10 is now out also.
I tried blag, whats nice about it is it comes with more multimedia features that take far less work to configure, but ubuntu has a much nicer(no thats an opinion) cleaner desktop and toolbars.
Xubuntu is nice as well.
I may retry blag w/xfce and the my new found understanding on sound configuration for a COMPAQ ARMADA 7800 LAPTOP.
Perhaps if someone else has the same problem i had and googles it, they may find this thread on their first couple of attempts.

bravo BenDB bravo