I have an Ess Audiodrive 1869 onboard. When I boot with default settings, it is not recognised.
Im a complete noob on linux, never used it before. My friend said Knoppix would be easy. It was.
Then I searched the forums, and found out about alsaconf. It worked the first time, found my card, configured it right and everything was as wonderful as with windows. Then, I saved my config to floppy, thinking i wouldnt need to use alsaconf everytime i wanted to listen to music. When i rebooted, it started the sound server, but whined about not finding the sound card. I tried alsaconf again, it found my card, but in the end of it, Enjoy part, said no such card, even thou it had found it less than a minute ago. Another try, and now it finds no isa/legacy cards at all.


My Question: Why does alsaconf not work after loading previous (alsa)configuration?????
this should be fixed..