I went ahead and commented out the VERBOSITY and CONFLICT lines from /etc/isapnp.conf. I recompiled my kernel to add MIDI once I was at it, and rebooted.
I'm able to play *.au files by catting them to /dev/audio, but that is the only way I can get sound. Whenever I try playing sounds in Enlightenment for special events (.wav files), I get nothing. If I try to start up any sound applications, they always declare that an error has occurred and "Make sure you have sound support compiled into the kernel". Here are the relevant lines from dmesg: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) <SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)> I remember a few other lines showing up during boot, including things like CTL00e4/515754242[0]{Audio } and other items based on settings in isapnp.conf, and it said okay after each of them. /sbin/lsmod: Module Size Used by awe_wave 156756 0 sb 32820 0 uart401 6096 0 [sb] sound 55448 0 [awe_wave sb uart401] soundlow 344 0 [sound] soundcore 2372 7 [sb sound] Let me know if there is other info needed to get my sound running. Other than the changes listed above, the info I provided in my previous email is still accurate. Thanks, John