> Hmm.  I just built a kernel yesterday (while sitting home due to snow up to my 
> waist in our driveway! 8-) and my SB/16 seems to play audio (at .au files) 
> quite well (as opposed to the scratchy sound before).  This probably isn't 
> conclusive proof either way, but I thought I'd
> mention it.
Playing at low sample rates works almost always, it's not until you
hit higher sample rates that there's a problem.

        -- Lennart