2.6.0-test4, ALSA and Ensoniq 1371 sound card

["Christopher L. Everett" <ceverett@ceverett.com>]

when Gnome 2.2 cranks up after I log in, I get an error message
saying "Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer".

perusing /dev, I see a /dev/sound directory, but no /dev/sound/mixer

I compiled all the sound modules into my kernel and diddled about
with the /etc/devs/conf.d/alsa adding entries to try to force it to add
/dev/sound/mixer, etc but no avail

Here is a relevant chunk of dmesg:

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.6 (Wed Aug 20 
20:27:13 2003 UTC).
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- snd-card-0. error = -16
no UART detected at 0xffff
Motu MidiTimePiece on parallel port irq: 7 ioport: 0x378
specify port
ALSA device list:
 #0: Dummy 1
 #1: Virtual MIDI Card 1
 #2:
 #3: Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xd400, irq 11

Any ideas?  I've run out of stuff to try off Google.