2.6.0 and ALSA

So I installed Linux 2.6.0, and so far it's pretty cool; it definitely feels
much quicker. One problem. 2.6.0 has ALSA in the kernel itself; before I
ran ALSA from the third party packages. My previous setup worked fine.
With the new kernel ALSA, however, everything's broken. The kernel can see
my card and load the drivers, it seems, but when ALSA programs try to access the
devices they just get "No such file or directory".

dmesg tells me this:

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.7 (Thu Sep 25 19:16:36 2003 UTC).
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- snd-card-0. error = -16
pnp: Device 01:01.00 activated.
sb16: no OPL device at 0x388-0x38a
ALSA device list:
  #0: Dummy 1
  #1: Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&5

It's right about the card. I don't know what the errors mean. From this, you'd think that using device 1 instead of 0 would yield working
sound. (Why there's a dummy in 0, I have no idea.) But no:

amoe@cowgirl $ alsamixer -c 0
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for hw:1: No such file or directory
amoe@cowgirl $ alsamixer -c 1
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for hw:1: No such file or directory

ALSA using programs fail noisily like this, and programs using the OSS API
(I have ALSA OSS emulation) fail silently, playing as normal but producing
no sound. I have no clue how to go about fixing this. Any ideas? TIA.