OSS/ALSA Conflict?

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I had a problem installing the Creative XFi Beta drivers and got some great help on here, but the installation still hangs at the same point (I understand from a post I made about it in early 2008 that it was a poorly written driver).

I searched the net and saw that OSS natively includes a working driver and tried to install it. I forgot to turn off the built-in sound so rebooted and edited BIOS. I then did the following:

[root@alphaone ~]# rpm -ivh oss-linux-v4.1-1052.x86_64.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:oss-linux ########################################### [100%]
Building OSS Modules for Linux-x86_64 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64

OSS build environment set up for REGPARM kernels

Building module osscore
Building module lynxone
Building module lynxtwo
Building module oss_ali5455
Building module oss_allegro
Building module oss_atiaudio
Building module oss_audigyls
Building module oss_audioloop
Building module oss_audiopci
Building module oss_cmi878x
Building module oss_cmpci
Building module oss_cs4281
Building module oss_cs461x
Building module oss_digi96
Building module oss_emu10k1x
Building module oss_envy24ht
Building module oss_envy24
Building module oss_fmedia
Building module oss_geode
Building module oss_hdaudio
Building module oss_ich
Building module oss_imux
Building module oss_midiloop
Building module oss_midimix
Building module oss_sblive
Building module oss_sbpci
Building module oss_sbxfi
Building module oss_solo
Building module oss_trident
Building module oss_usb
Building module oss_userdev
Building module oss_via823x
Building module oss_via97
Building module oss_ymf7xx
depmod -a
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Detected Creative SB X-Fi *EARLY BETA*
USB support available in the system, adding USB driver
Detected Generic USB audio/MIDI device (BETA)
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Starting Open Sound System
OSS is already loaded.

The only problem is that, even after another reboot, the sound still doesn't work. I expect it's to do with the fact that I haven't touched ALSA at all.

I found instructions to uninstall ALSA at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-really-97911/

Before I do, I was wondering if anyone would know what would happen to DVD and Music playback etc? I remember seeing references to ALSA plugins and don't want to ruin Music & Movie Player.

Thanks in advanced for any help/tips/pointers.