Thank you for the dmesg, that was very long, I should have read from the bottom up I would guess that if you commented out the probing of your second audio card (the one built into the mobo) you may fix your problem. I see they are sharing the same "IRQ". Since I have no idea how to edit which IRQ something uses, or even what they use IRQ's for, I would either say move the Soundcard to a different PCI port, or in /etc/modules.conf place a # sign in front of the entry that ISN'T for your SB Live card.

If you need help on how, you could post a copy of your /etc/modules.conf file and someone could "edit" it for you, and then you could "cut and paste" the edited version.

Cool

thanks a lot, i will post it when i come home.

Thanks !

It's my /etc/modules.conf


alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 tulip
alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias sound-slot-1 emu10k1
post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias char-major-195 NVdriver

And here is what you want it to look like:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 tulip
#alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
#post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias sound-slot-1 emu10k1
#post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias char-major-195 NVdriver


Or at least that's how I read it, someone else might have a better idea, but it would be safe to give that a try at least. If it doesn't work, you could also try (continue using the # sounds) changing the sound-slot-1 to a sound-slot-0 for your emu10k1. If it still doesn't work, simply remove the # signs I have added and change the 0 back to a 1.

Cool

Once you have done what MasterC reccomends if you still get the error with /dev/dsp

try: -

loging in as root

set init level to 3

chmod 766 /dev/dsp

this will set the access rights to r w x for root and r w - for other users and all other groups

thanks !

No problem