Ray wrote in <jBMYe.248868$Hk.220129@pd7tw1no>:

> I think I may have shot myself in the foot while compiling my kernel and
> removing stuff I didn't need... I think I removed alsa support... but
> there's no option labelled "ALSA" ... there's lots of sound options, but
> none specifically ALSA...

The sound options in 2.4 are all for OSS. If you want to use ALSA you have
to leave them out, or at least have them as modules, and then compile
alsa-driver yourself with your new kernel.
>
> (slackware-current from about three weeks ago 2.4.31 - basically slack
> 10.2)
>
> I'm going to have another peek in the morning with a generic config
> file....
>
> The box is an Athlon64 with an SBLive that was running a slack 8.1-9.1
> upgrade when it was an AthlonXP so when I replaced the board I decided
> to reload slack on a nice clean partition. ALSA used to work... but I
> don't even remember what I did... all I remember is getting sound to
> work has always been a bit of a production for various reasons.
>
> alsaconfig can't find the card either... so I think I broke something.
>

Get the alsa-driver source from www.alsa-project.org and compile and install
it is probably your best bet. Make sure you get a version matching your
alsa-utils and alsa-lib.