I know that there are a lot of ALSA questions posted here, but I couldn't find the solution to this problem. Hopefully, I'm just an idiot and this is an easy question.

Background:
Installed Slack 9, KDE's arts server got sound working pronto. To use wine with sound, you generally should use ALSA. So, obviously, I head to ALSA's site, download the 0.9.3 drive/lib/utils and install them. I configure with:
./configure --with-cards=emu10k1 --with-sequencer=yes --with-kernel=/usr <-- (becuase is automatically tacks on (specified path)/linux/include/whatever.h)

Everything goes hunky dory, I configure/make/make install everything (driver/lib/utils) and do the modprobe on all of the modules. Everything's cool. So I pop in the ALSA aliases in the modules.conf file and reboot for sound. <--everything's standard up to here-->

The Problem:
Upon reboot, the system complains that insmod can't get emu10k1 module installed. So I check to see what error it gives and it says:

Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: unresolved symbol ac97_probe_codec
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: unresolved symbol ac97_read_proc

And I have no clue of what to do with this...

Related Sys. Specs:
Soundcard : SoundBlaster 512 PCI (emu10k1, supported by ALSA)

If I am not mistaken all alsa modules begin with "snd-". The messages you posted were from the kernel modules trying to load without the ac97 support loaded. Maybe they were replaced by the alsa install. So I think I would recommend adding the emu10k1 module to the end of /etc/hotplug/blacklist file to prevent the hotplug system from attempting to load it.

You will then have to determine if the desired alsa modules are loaded or load them manually.

That was exactly it...thanks alot, Excalibur!