Quote Originally Posted by onemyndseye
Is Knoppix reporting your soundcard at boot? ... if so try issuing the following as root:
I guess that it's not strictly necessay that the sound hardware has to be recognised.
In one of my boxes knoppix doesn't recognise my sound hardware (embedded in the motherboard, not a separate soundcard) and the message that appears at boot is something like:
"sound subsistem not recognised"
"generic sound driverxxx loaded"
And the sound play fine on that pc.