KCCR is back up, had a delayed outage as child birth happened during repair. BTW - the issue I had was due to a oss - opensound trial software licence expiring not a hardware failure which urked me to say the least. CentOS 5.5 (final) oss driver has a 6 month trail licence that needs to be reinstalled every 6 months(or pay 50 bucks). Never heard of drivers packaged with a GNU OS having this type of requirement...grr
that's why the linux kernel now favours ALSA over OSS. You may want to see if ALSA supports your card, and go that route.
www.alsa-project.org, IIRC.
BL.