LinuxQuestions.org - SBLive found and functional yet no sound

Hi all,
Lordy knows I love linux, but right now I'm a donkey on the edge....

It seems from other posts that sound is a bit of a problem. I've tried all advice from other posters but still I can't get sound working properly (amongst MANY other prob.s tha I'll post seperately to help other's searches). I've tried to post all the details here that were asked in other's posts - save time and show everyone I really _did_ read the other posts :grin:

The SB card seems to be identified OK, and THE TEST SOUND PLAYS OK in both redhat-config-soundcard and sndconfig. Therefore I think the card is inserted OK, cabling is good, IRQ's assigned OK and maybe even drivers are OK. But why no sound in games, media player, XMMS etc.:confused: Not even the desktop alert sounds.

Note that I did install Redhat before disabling the onboard sound (that just seems plain damn suspicious, but I dont' want to reinstall again without good reason).

My Config:
Old Compaq Deskpro - PIII 600mhz (I'm building a MAME Juke box in my dreams)
Sound on MB disabled in bios
PnP disabled in bios
RedHat 8.0 - 2.4.18-14
SBLive 5.0 - pukka non-Dell version

My modules.conf:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eepro100
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
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 || :

Top bit of lsmod:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
emu10k1 68744 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13384 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
sound 74388 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
soundcore 6532 7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]

Output from cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 3).
Master Capable. Latency=64.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x44000000 [0x47ffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 3).
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=140.
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 8).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x41200000 [0x41200fff].
I/O at 0x2000 [0x203f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x41100000 [0x411fffff].
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 6).
IRQ 7.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
I/O at 0x2080 [0x209f].
Bus 0, device 16, function 1:
Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 6).
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x2070 [0x2077].
Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2).
Bus 0, device 20, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x2060 [0x206f].
Bus 0, device 20, function 2:
USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
IRQ 7.
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x2040 [0x205f].
Bus 0, device 20, function 3:
Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2).
IRQ 9.
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 92).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000 [0x40ffffff].
I/O at 0x1000 [0x10ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x41000000 [0x41000fff].

ALSA (I believe) is not installed. "whereis alsa" just returnes "alsa:"

One of my other problems is a full blown case of Dependency Hell :cry: so I hope I don't need to install anything new (can't get anything to compile, yum ain't working right, sick of manually downloading dependency files). Even those barstools at M$ never made me that mad :mad:

Thanks for any help. I'll be online for the next 8 or so hours if anyone is out there.....

Sid.