maybe am going too much non-chuck related so...sould switch posting to LAU-ml? but well this is whta i have here on my DebianPPCStable (which only could have chuck make sound via jacd -dalsa) in /proc/asound i had: card0 cards devices modules oss pcm seq Snapper timers version oh yes Snapper is there and that was a dir which had: id oss_mixer pcm0c pcm0p in it and each of them just had 1 line: Snapper in it less /proc/asound/cards says: 0 [Snapper ]: PMac Snapper - PowerMac Snapper PowerMac Snapper (Dev 38) Sub-frame 0 less /proc/asound/version says: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu Jun 22 13:55:50 2006 UTC). well mine might be Snapper on which people are suffering lthis way: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=504089 mmm..i have no idea
the best way to check whether alsa found a device and loaded the driver is this: cat /proc/asound/cards
where you should see at least one entry. There are other files that can be queried in the /proc/asound directory.
You should start with that and see where it takes you. Also, check /proc/asound/version and read alsa release notes on that version. Perhaps your hardware is only partially supported.
This is probably irrelevant, but long time ago I had this cheap card where the clock was running at 44099Hz or something, and many audio applications were complaining about it...