I think I need a sound/ALSA guru. (Followup stupid questions)

[William Case]

Hi;

I have the following new gui's  on my menu that seemed to arrive about
the same time as my last kernel update:

 ~]# hdspmixer

HDSPMixer 1.6 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas at undata.org>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPMixer is free software, see the file COPYING for details

Looking for HDSP cards :
Card 0 : Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xdf00, irq 11
No Hammerfall DSP card found.

~]# hdspconf

HDSPConf 1.4 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas at undata.org>
This program comes WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPConf is free software, see the file copying for details

Looking for HDSP cards :
Card 0 : Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xdf00, irq 11
No Hammerfall DSP card found.

What are they about ?

Dare I remove them using yum?

Regards Bill