Have you got anything plugged into the gameport on the card,
that's likely to
be using midi? Any OSS app will be using /dev/dsp, and will grab the
soundcard, preventing anything else using it.
I did not plug anything in there, but I don't know whether something could
be plugged in under the covers of my notebook.
rpm -q will only find rpms. Alsasound is a shellscript, and hence rpm
doesn't
know that it exists.
The -f here means "query package that owns this file". What I meant was,
this is proof the /etc/init.d/alsasound script that I'm running belongs to
the 1.0.12.rc1 version I compiled from source, and not from the alsa rpms
I had installed.
I'm running out of ideas.
Ok, thanks for helping me.