ok with the help of brian :) i found "Starting sound driver snd-emu10k1 /lib/modules/2.4.23-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma/kernel/sound/snd-emu10k1.o: init_module: No such device" is whats messing me up. anyone seen this before? it seems the module isn't installed. please contact me if you know how to fix this.