apt-get the following:

1. alsa-modules
2. alsa-base
3. alsa-utils

re-ran the script under /etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig and then I tried to start ./alsa from that directory, and get this error message:

root@xanadu:/etc/init.d# ./alsa start
Starting ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.2): no sound cards defined.

I run sndconfig, and it finds the card, a SB Live! Emu10000

Then the modules for the card, emu10k1.o is not in my module search path.

BUT, if I do the following:

lsmod | grep emu*
root@xanadu:/etc/init.d# lsmod | grep emu*

emu10k1 61064 1
sound 55244 0 [emu10k1]
ac97_codec 11884 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 3428 7 [emu10k1 sound]
emu10k1-gp 1224 0 (unused)
gameport 1388 0 [emu10k1-gp]


Very odd, looks like that module is loaded for the kernel, right?

thanks