Re, I've never had problem setting up my sblive.. now i've recompiled 2.2.18 kernel with sblive support.. all went smoothly, dmesg shows:
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.7, 13:38:42 Mar 14 2001 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8027 found, IO at 0xb800-0xb81f, IRQ 9 when i load xmms.. it refuses to play: ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device well, ls -la shows: crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 30 10:23 /dev/dsp i've tried "MAKEDEV audio", but to no avail. any ideas?