I have used sb16 since kernel 2.0 It still works with both oss and alsa in sarge(kernel 2.4): oss: isa-pnp isapnp_disable=1 sound uart401 sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 alsa: isa-pnp isapnp_disable=1 snd-sb16 isapnp=0 but in etch (kernel 2.6), oss driver works I pass noisapnp kernel option during boot but alsa does not work it should work but after I reinstall etch it doesn't work no matter how hard I try