I am unable to get my sound card working (Debian 3.1 with a 2.6.8 686-smp kernel, everything pretty vanilla)

lspci returns the following for my sound card:
0000:02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X

The following is found from lsmod:
snd_emu10k1
snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss
snd_pcm
snd_timer
snd_seq_device
snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc
snd_util_mem
snd_hwdep
snd
soundcore

alsaconf indicates "No supported PnP or PCI card found"
alsamixer indicates "function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device"

cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp returns:
bash: /dev/dsp: No such device

Help would be greatly appreciated. I am not too familiar with Linux's sound or module architecture, so verbose responses with explanation are welcome.