alsa thing

[Steven Rubenstein <SJR ElectricSpectric com>]

Using the 2.4.9-13 kernel and all current "updates" from Red Hat Network.

I installed ALSA 0.5-12a driver, ALSA 0.5-10b lib, and ALSA 0.5-10 
utils.  (Noticed no error messages on install).

When I reboot, I get a dialog box:

   Error while initializing the sound driver
   Device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
   The sound servier will continue, using the null output device

Then, true to form, I have no sound.  (Muting/unmuting has no effect).

If anyone can help, here's what shows up for "dsp" stuff in /dev:

   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Jan  1 14:15 dsp -> /dev/dsp0
   crw-------    1 root     root      14,   3 Jan  1 14:15 dsp0
   crw-------    1 root     root      14,  19 Jan  1 14:15 dsp1
   crw-------    1 root     root      14,  35 Jan  1 14:15 dsp2
   crw-------    1 root     root      14,  51 Jan  1 14:15 dsp3
   crw-------    1 root     root      55,   0 Aug 30 15:30 dsp56k

and here's my modules.conf:

   alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
   alias eth0             3c59x
   alias usb-controller   usb-uhci

   alias char-major-116     snd
   alias snd-card-0         snd-card-emu10k1
   alias char-major-14      soundcore
   alias sound-slot-0       snd-card-0
   alias sound-service-0-0  snd-mixer-oss
   alias sound-service-0-1  snd-seq-oss
   alias sound-service-0-3  snd-psm-oss
   alias sound-service-0-8  snd-seq-oss
   alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

   options snd              snd-major-116 snd_cards_limit=1 
snd_device_gid=0 snd_decide_uid=0
   options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=0

   post-install snd-card-emu10k1 alsactl restore

Gracias and New Year's wishes,

SJR