Yes. I had the same problem. I noticed that alsa was instaled but the aliases for the modules were not configured. I had to modify the /etc/modules.conf manually. Boo!
-Dave > The mixer appears, but I can't play anything. no sound comes out. > All the IRQs and DMAs seem right but no sound. I retried without artsd > and the same thing happens. Funny that the noise volume corresponds to > the mixer volume setting so something is happening. > > I also started getting corruption of the characterset on boot (terminal in > graphics mode or something like that). > > Unable to get grname for user $££%£%"£%£"$£"%$£^$^ > > (except the funny characters included graphic chars.). > > This prevented me from using what I presume was the textmode sound config > wizard.