I also ran lsmod before:
and after alsa was installed:# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
keybdev 1860 0 (unused)
mousedev 4020 1
hid 20804 0 (unused)
usbmouse 1880 0 (unused)
input 3360 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
parport_pc 15108 0
parport 23880 0 [parport_pc]
sr_mod 14488 0 (unused)
ide-cd 29504 0
cdrom 27744 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
unionfs 157488 1
nls_iso8859-1 2812 0 (autoclean)
sd_mod 11404 0 (unused)
ds 6580 1
usb-uhci 21936 0 (autoclean) (unused)
usbcore 59596 1 (autoclean) [hid usbmouse usb-uhci]
i810_audio 23292 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ac97_codec 12020 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 3588 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
yenta_socket 10436 1 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core 40228 0 (autoclean) [ds yenta_socket]
tulip 39200 1 (autoclean)
crc32 2896 0 (autoclean) [tulip]
e100 47604 0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod 93972 2 [sr_mod sd_mod]
# lsmod
(Sorry the column format was not retained when I copied from Beaver and pasted into the forum.)# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd 33732 0 (autoclean)
snd-page-alloc 5268 0 (autoclean) [snd]
keybdev 1860 0 (unused)
mousedev 4020 1
hid 20804 0 (unused)
usbmouse 1880 0 (unused)
input 3360 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
parport_pc 15108 0
parport 23880 0 [parport_pc]
sr_mod 14488 0 (unused)
ide-cd 29504 0
cdrom 27744 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
unionfs 157488 1
nls_iso8859-1 2812 0 (autoclean)
sd_mod 11404 0 (unused)
ds 6580 1
usb-uhci 21936 0 (autoclean) (unused)
usbcore 59596 1 (autoclean) [hid usbmouse usb-uhci]
i810_audio 23292 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ac97_codec 12020 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 3588 2 (autoclean) [snd i810_audio]
yenta_socket 10436 1 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core 40228 0 (autoclean) [ds yenta_socket]
tulip 39200 1 (autoclean)
crc32 2896 0 (autoclean) [tulip]
e100 47604 0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod 93972 2 [sr_mod sd_mod]
#
Finally, I ran /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa status, which returned:
ALSA sound driver loaded