ESS 1868 sound on Red Hat 8.0

[Alan Dayley]

Well, I thought I had my Red Hat 8.0 all set.  Then I tried to play
music with XMMS.  It reports that it "Couldn't open audio."

As in past installations of Red Hat, I had to use sndconfig to manually
set the parameters for my card.  I selected the settings I had chosen
previously.  The sample sound played just fine with Linus telling me how
to pronounce "Linux"

But, audio applications claim that the audio cannot be opened.  Any
thoughts?  here is my modules.conf file:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 tulip
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 sb
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
options sound dmabuf=1
alias synth0 opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330

I don't have a copy of my old modules.conf file from RH 7.3.  I don't
remember the "post-install..." and "pre-remove..." lines and have no
idea, at this moment, what they do.  Also, I used to have to change my
eth0 driver to de4x5 from the current tulip because tulip didn't work in
previous versions.  Maybe the tulip driver is interfering with the
sound?  That feels like a reach though.

Alan