HELP WITH SOUND CARD!

[Brian Neal <bneal@ia.net>]

I am going crazy trying to get my sound card to be recognized!!!

I am using slink and pulled the latest kernel sources off of the 2
official
cd-roms. I used the pnpdump tool to determine the base address, IRQ's,
etc of my card (a 3 year old Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO). I put these
into a /etc/isapnp.conf file. I then went and rebuilt a kernel with
sound support for my card compiled in and used all the same settings
as I put in /etc/isapnp.conf file. I chose the OSS Soundscape driver.
I then noticed the Debian install
didn't setup any of the /dev/ files. So I did a /dev/MAKEDEV audio
which seemed to create all the devices. I then installed my new kernel
with lilo and rebooted to it.

When it starts up you can see a message that isapnp found my card and
activated it. You can even hear a click on the speakers. (It is 
interesting to note that this message does not appear in
/var/log/messages
or as a result of dmesg). But if I do a dmesg it says card not found.
If I do 'cat /dev/sndstat' my card and settings show up in parenthesis
which according to the how-to mean it wasn't recognized.

So since then I have tried all the settings that pnpdump says will
work (there are multiple choices). I have made and remade my kernel
a zillion times and I am ready to throw the damn card out the window.

Any ideas?
Do I need to have the isapnp running (in /etc/init.d) to setup the
card before the kernel will find it? Or should I remove isapnp?

(I got all my other peripherals and systems (X, ppp, zip drive) to 
work almost on the first try...but this sound card business is crazy).

Thanks!!!!