If you ever want to try the ALSA thing again, try this email news group:

ALSA Registration Site

You can register your email with the above, then post emails to the "mailing list" of your ALSA questions, issues, or problems. Some great ALSA people on this email

As a matter of concern though, dont mention any "cheatcodes" to them, they just dont get the whole "knoppix boot" thing, I did this once, and got a whole lot of responses that I had to explain, just mention things like "Debian Sid, version xxxx, with kernel xxxxx" kind of stuff...

Most of the die-hard people in this group run Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc... and the whole "knoppix" thing is way over them. They are mostly used to having to compile source, and insert the modules kind of thing...

Glad to hear you got your sound working, not quite sure if ReZound is going to work with the OSS though... I think I need to run "jack" in the background for it, and thats with ALSA. You might still try it though, heck, its another sound editor / recorder