Problem between OSS and ALSA in sid

[Manu <seatmanu@yahoo.com>]

Hi

I am having some problem with my sound system on my
laptop. 
I am really confuse between OSS and ALSA
I would like to use ALSA rather than OSS
but for some reason I only have the OSS running (when
looking at the gnome sounds applet it says OSS..)

I see the following when typing lspci (just put the
relevant part)
------------------
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237
PCI bridge [K8T800 South]
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235
ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master
IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA
Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio
Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA
Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 80)
---------------------

Now I have in the modules.conf

alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
options snd-via82xx dxs_support=4
options snd-via82xx ac97_quirk=0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd major=116 cards_limit=1


when using esound from gnome i have a very weird noise
 all the time.

when using the sounds recorder I get  "can't write to
/dev/dsp"

When using OSS with XMMS it works but esound and ALSA
don t seem to work

what  am I missing? why is my /dev/dsp not writable (I
did not created it.. was done by the system)?

Any help would be appreciated. I have looked at the
alsa project but could not find any help


Manu 

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