Well, I must say that the last few days have been quite an adventure! I just got a brand new Dell Dimension 8300 which I heavily customized. I finally have it dual booting between Windows XP Professional and Slackware 9.1 In the process, I learned that serial ATA isn't supported very well in 2.4.X kernels, so I had to upgrade to 2.6.7 to avoid hangs at boot time. Oddly, Serial ATA is hidden among the SCSI low-level drivers. In fact, with my particular chipset, serial ATA is handled like a sort of SCSI emulation! So, Linux is now treating my hard drive as if it were SCSI. So, they were bragging about how you no longer need SCSI emulation to use CD writers, but now, the kernel does its own SCSI emulation to support Serial ATA. Oh well, at least it works. Anyway, part of this upgrading involved upgrading to Alsa 1.0.5A. After I got the modules correctly installed, the sound card was detected automatically. It's an SB Live 5.1. Actually, "lspci" says it's an "SB Live! Value." So, the sound card came up OK, and I eventually got settings so that I could hear sound. There are two problems, however. I can't record anything, and the sound card is acting like a single-channel sound card, whereas in Windows, it clearly is multi-channel. Any attempt to record results in errors to the effect of "no such device." For example, using SOX to record results in: Send break (control-c) to end recording sox: Can't open input file '/dev/dsp': No such device Trying to use arecord gives a similar message: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c failed: No such device arecord: main:507: audio open error: No such device I have the OSS-compatibility modules loaded. Any ideas what could be wrong? Here is the output from lsmod with the Speakup software synthesizer in use and Flite as my synthesizer. Module Size Used by speakup_sftsyn 5228 0 speakupmain 56648 1 speakup_sftsyn snd_pcm_oss 51336 0 snd_mixer_oss 19328 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_emu10k1x 13576 0 snd_pcm 91648 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1x snd_timer 25856 1 snd_pcm snd_ac97_codec 71172 1 snd_emu10k1x snd 52868 6 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1x,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec soundcore 8672 1 snd snd_page_alloc 11784 2 snd_emu10k1x,snd_pcm
