After re-installing MDK 10.1, updating from Mandrake updates and easy-urpmi, I found that ALSA won't recognize my Sound Blaster Live 24 bit (7.1). I installed ALSA 1.0.8 (drivers, lib and utils) without incident, but when I modprobe, I get

[root@localhost alsa-driver-1.0.8]# modprobe snd-ca0106
FATAL: Module snd-ca0106 not found.

lsmod give me:
[root@localhost alsa-driver-1.0.8]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd-seq-oss 31232 0
snd-seq-midi-event 6080 1 snd-seq-oss
snd-seq 47440 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq-device 6344 2 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq
snd-pcm-oss 49480 0
snd-pcm 81800 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-timer 20356 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
snd-mixer-oss 17376 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd 45988 7 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-seq-device,snd-pcm-oss,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mixer-oss
soundcore 7008 1 snd
snd-page-alloc 7400 1 snd-pcm

lspci gives:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]
and
uname -a gives:
Linux localhost 2.6.8.1-12mdk #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) unknown GNU/Linux

I'm at a loss for how to recover. I've searched though these forums (and will continue to do so), but no one seems stuck at the modprobe point.
Any help is appreciated.
Joe

Is there support for that card in the kernel? If not then your going to have to recomiple the kernel with support for that card!

Thanks for the reply, cereal. I *thought* there was support, but this sound-card stuff seems like a very confused proposition.

What I learned from the ALSA site was that I needed to modprobe emu10k, not snd-ca0106. Did that, but I still have a remaining problem. When I boot or change configurations (even my login icon??? Stunning!), I get a popup message saying that /dev/dsp can't be opened. I see that many people have gotten that. Haven't found a solution to that one, yet. The message first came up when I re-installed 10.1. alsaconf says that it can't locate any drivers.
The ALSA site is a little more confusing than most.

Joe

I was right the first time. Went to the ALSA site (http://www.alsa-project.org/), and read for a day. The module snd-ca0106 *is* the correct one for the SB Line! 24 bit card.
But I'm back to the point where I was - after unpacking the latest driver (1.0.8), and the libs and the utilities, ./configure;make;make install (just like in their instructions), the modprobe snd-ca0106 still fails with the fatle error "module snd-ca0106 not found".

Didn't see any obvious problems during the make, except that the libs and utilities did say, many times words to the effect "leaving directory <blatz> - nothing to be done", which I assume was from my first attempt at the makes and make installs yesterday.

Well, any guidance about where to go from here is still appreciated!
J

Still learning, so I thought I'd share what I've learned. I had the misconception that the driver I needed, snd-ca0106, came with the latest ALSA download. Apparently, it comes with the kernal, and then only in the latest updates. So now I'm learning how to do the infamous Kernal Update (TM), something I never thought I'd be doing.
Actully, it doesn't seem so bad.
What could possibly go wrong. Go wrong. Go wrong. Go..
J

As a linux newbie myself, I find nothing easier than compiling the kernal.

It's the reboot that I have trouble with...