I've noticed that, on most any flavour of GNU/Linux [RedHat, Slackware,
Debian, Mandrake, WinLinux], the loading of the sb module with the
correct parameters for your sound card enables sounds perfectly. Of
course, your sound card must be touted as "SoundBlaster Compatible",
which most cards are, these days. At least, this worked for me in
Redhat 6.2, Slackware 7.1, Potato, Mandrake 7.2 and WinLinux 2000. Does
this also work on other flavours/versions?
- Shrikant