alsa/msi k7t266 pro2/redhat 8 problems

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figured i'd try to make the subject as descriptive as possible.. =)

anyways, in Redhat 7.2 my sound worked fine out of the box, but not quite so in 7.3 and 8.0, so of course i tried installing the alsa drivers.
Redhat 8, i must point out, found my soundcard and detected it, but no programs would play sound and also when shutting down i would get error closing mixer.

following the directions on http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=VIA&card=&chip=via8233a&module=via8233, i installed the .9r3 drivers, libs, utils. i didn't get any errors through out the process, even after modprobing (a tip for you redhat alsa installers, you need to make a symbolic link /usr/src/linux to you /usr/src/linux-2.4, otherwise it can't seem to build itself).

I added the lines to the modules.conf file:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
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
and then rebooted. before i rebooted i couldn't hear anything either.
when i rebooted, for some reason my console mouse driver failed to shut down, but i'll track that down later. I ran alsamixer again and i set the volume up again (50 range) but still no sound. i was using xmms to play a small wav i downloaded. xmms freezes up when i try to play something, so i think its hanging on some mis configured/installed component.

I'm not sure if i needed to add the other lines to my modules.conf file, or whether i should replace some lines or just add it to the end.
Anyways, i'm hoping someone could help me figure this one out

 

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ok, i made a little progress (actually more of discovering...)

grip seems to play my cd just fine, xmms still dies when i try to play a wav file. What i did was 'cat file.wav > /dev/dsp' and it played the file, but it sounded weird (though to be fair i don't know what its supposed to sound like).

So methinks the problem is that xmms and other programs trying to link to the old soundcard instead of alsa, any suggestions as to how to do this? I'm putting in my modules.conf as a whole, because fromthe documentation, i think i need to change settings in here. i don't know what to do from here, i mainly just copied and pasted the stuff from the guide.

Thanks for any suggestions...


PS i don't think the card #2 section (cmipci) should be in there, but like i said, i just copied off of some documentation i found.

***************/etc/modules.conf*************************************

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 tulip
#alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
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

# OSS/Free portion - card #2 (cmipci)
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss