Thanks Pavel!
I now finally have the nvidia module autoloaded under 2.6. I never had
this problem with RH9 and 2.6. For the ALSA modules to load properly I
just installed the alsa-driver package (under 2.4) which installs
alsasound in /etc/rc.d/init.d. Alsasound can then be added to chkconfig.
I fixed this problem by changing in /etc/modprobe.conf
alias char-major-14 soundcore
by
alias char-major-14-* soundcore.
same goes for NVidia drivers, where I had to change
alias char-major-195 nvidia
by
alias char-major-195-* nvidia
HTH
P.S. I hope someone can elaborate on why this behavior changed.
Pavel.
Greets,
Jurgen