(Up to: Linux )

Steps taken to fix sound on desktop

1. Remove and re-add all sound-related modules
2. make modules_install in /usr/src/linux
3. Uninstall and reinstall alsa packages
4. Try making /dev/dsp myself using mknod
5. Try making /dev/sound myself using mkdir
6. Uninstall alsa packages, ln -sf /lib/modules/2.6.10 /lib/modules.2.4.31 because the alsa packages seemed to point to the latter for some reason. Reinstall, reboot.
7. Find a copy of snddevices from the web. Run it, run alsaconf - yay! snddevices is now in ~graham/installers/system.
8. Add snddevices to rc.M. Not ideal.