I got alsa installed; I thought I had had ncurses5-dev installed prior to the compile of the utils but when I removed the configure-cache everything recompiled fine, so I must have been mistaken. Now I have made an alsa file in /etc/modutils (because in debian you aren't supposed to directly edit modules.conf), and I will show the file below. However, i still get Unable to open /dev/audio: no such device when I try to run sound. Do I perhaps need to put irq, dma, io port, etc. in this file? cat /proc/interrupts does shou the emuk1 at irq 11. Thanks. /etc/modutils/alsa alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias snd-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
