[linux-audio-user] ES1688 or ES1888? @ gateway solo2100

well a newbie here is struggling @ slackware on Gateway2000 SOLO 2100 (a PentiumMMX 150Mhz with 48MB-RAM machine) is there a good site that someone doing sound things with this machine is running? after a basic "promt-mode-only" install of slack8.1 tried a mpg123 thing @ root but it hit me with a cannot open /dev/dsp message so i thought re-configuring the kernel was something i cannot run away from the spcecification sheet that came with this secoond hand machine says that the machine has ESS's ES1888 chip on it but after installing windoze95 that system seems recognize the chip as ES1688 (and the sound aspect is doing ok without changing anything) yes the cd-rom 4 driver installation is also here but its instruction doc tells me to choose ES1688 hah but i tried the ES1888 driver install and the result is also not bad now then a driver for which is the one i should choose @ slackware? could find some ESS related check box at make menuconfig but some people warned me that the default (?) SoundBlaster compatible might be enough so it'd not the kernel related thing but some modprobe or setting files preparing oriented something that i'm missing over here? PS. my plan on this prompt mode machine to run csound and jsyn only jsyn requires portaudio but if talking about the kernel OSS might be enough? BUYO-BUYO-IGOR------------------ http://buyobuyo.isgenius.com "SaRiGaMa's Oil Vending Orchestra" http://oil.isonfire.com