allora ho installato la slackware10 da 0.
Ovviamente l'audio nn funziona (e so che nn è un problema solo mio).

Ho dato alsaconf installato il mio chip, poi con alsamixer e ho settato i volumi e con alsactl store ho memorizzato i valori.

Ma ancora nn funziona nulla....
a quanto mi pare di aver capito il device dsp nn esiste.
infatti se per esempio dò da shell:
xmms file.mp3
mi viene restituito come errore
** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device

il mio lsmod da in output:
codice:
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ppp_synctty             5856   0  (unused)
ppp_async               7392   1
ppp_generic            19492   3  [ppp_synctty ppp_async]
slhc                    4976   0  [ppp_generic]
snd-pcm-oss            37736   0
snd-mixer-oss          12504   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
uhci                   24444   0  (unused)
usbcore                59308   1  [uhci]
snd-intel8x0           18924   0
snd-ac97-codec         49500   0  [snd-intel8x0]
gameport                1420   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart         3200   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi            12740   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          3888   0  [snd-rawmidi]
8139too                14376   1
mii                     2272   0  [8139too]
crc32                   2880   0  [8139too]
tuner                  10184   1  (autoclean)
tda9887                 3072   1  (autoclean)
tvaudio                13480   0  (autoclean) (unused)
msp3400                16416   1  (autoclean)
bttv                   94656   0  (unused)
i2c-algo-bit            7144   1  [bttv]
i2c-core               12804   0  [tuner tda9887 tvaudio msp3400 bttv i2c-algo-bit]
videodev                5952   3  [bttv]
snd-bt87x               5192   0
snd-pcm                56072   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-bt87x]
snd-timer              13604   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc          6328   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-bt87x snd-pcm]
snd                    30852   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-bt87x snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore               3396   8  [bttv snd]
pcmcia_core            39972   0
ide-scsi                9328   0
agpgart                43940   0  (unused)