ok, first off, this post refers to Knoppix V3.2-2003-05-20.
i have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard that i got with a Dell PC. after booting, i'll run sndconfig to have it detect my card. it does, no problem (cs46xx). then it plays a test sound. but i can't hear the sound. yes, my speaker volume is up just about as loud as it'll go (which is way too loud). so i tell sndconfig that i didn't hear the sound, which takes me to the driver selection screen. i tried a few other random drivers, but they reported all kinds of errors so i stopped because i knew they were wrong anyway.
if i boot with knoppix alsa=cs46xx the same thing happens, with one tiny exception: during the boot, i do hear a couple beeps through my speakers, but they're pretty quiet (and my speakers are waaay up). again, sound doesn't work with play or xmms or anything else i've tried. and yes, i've made sure to adjust alsamixer to make sure it's not muted by default.
so how come this isn't working? i haven't gotten this card to work yet, even after reinstalling alsa and building the module myself. the best luck i had was with OSS/commercial, but that couldn't even be described as "working." this is a huge shame, because this card is absolutely stellar in windoze. it's the single thing that's keeping me from wiping that damn ntfs partition
tVMia!