[Alsa-user] Problems with Alsa and Mandrake 8.2

[Jason Bandlow]

Hello all.  I'm a relative newbie to Linux, and if anyone could help me with the following problem, I'd really appreciate it.  I've been banging my head against the wall for a couple of days now and I've simply run out of ideas.  Here's the story:

I was originally using Mandrake 8.1, under which I successfully installed the Alsa drivers for my SBLive! card, and really enjoyed it.  I started having (unrelated) hard-drive problems, so I installed Mandrake 8.2 (kernel version: 2.4.18-6mdk) on a new disk.  I then downloaded the source for 0.5.12a driver, the 0.5.10b libs and the 0.5.10 utils.  After unzipping and untarring, I changed to the driver directory and did

./configure --with-sequencer=yes --with-cards=emu10k1
make
make install

with no errors.  I then did ./configure; make; make install; in the other directories, again with no errors.  I then went back to the drivers directory and ran ./snddevices

At his point, I copied the relevant parts of my old /etc/modules.conf  into my current /etc/modules.conf   (The relevant parts of that file are included below).

Finally I did modprobe snd-card-emu10k1 which again gave no errors.

However, when I tried running amixer I got the response:
The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.

Curiously, when I try /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start   I get:
ALSA driver is already running.

Other possibly useful information:
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[root@res091081 /]# lsmod | grep snd
snd-pcm-oss            18816   0  (autoclean)
snd-pcm-plugin         16080   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss           4704   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-card-emu10k1        2400   0  (autoclean)
snd-emu10k1            22912   0  (autoclean) [snd-card-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi            10112   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec         24896   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-mixer              24328   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-emux-mem            1424   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-pcm                31616   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer               8576   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-seq-device          3948   0  [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd                    34272   1  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-emux-mem snd-pcm snd-timer snd-seq-device]
soundcore               4068   5  [snd]

[root@res091081 /]# cat /etc/modules.conf

pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 tulip
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
# options snd-card-interwave snd_index=0

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

[root@res091081 /]# ls /proc/asound
0@  card1/  cards  devices  oss-devices  pcm  seq/  sndstat  timers  version

[root@res091081 /]# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [card1          ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live!
                     Sound Blaster Live! at 0xd800, irq 11

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Does anyone have any thoughts on what may have changed between 8.1 and 8.2 that would be causing this?  Or, more particulary, what I need to do to get things working again?  

Thanks in advance!

Jason Bandlow
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