Can't get sound to work!

["Rev. Ferret" <ferret@optonline.net>]

Hi, I'm having problems getting my sound blaster 16 working.  I used
modconf to select the sb module, which in turn selected a bunch of the
oss modules.  After doing this, I can play audio cd's, but whenever I
try to run gmix it tells me that I do not have a mixer installed or my
kernel doesn't support sound.  When I run XMMS, it tells me my kernel
either doesn't support sound or my card is not configured correctly.  I
figured my kernel supports sound because I can load sound modules and
play audio cd's, so something else must be wrong.  What else do I have
to do to get sound to work under debian?

Thanks,
Steve