Sound stopped working "/dev/dsp: No such device"

[Gaccm]

I have a SBLive! value card. And i did get sound to work. But, after a reboot it stopped and i cant seem to get it to work.
everytime i try "bplay filename.wav" i get /dev/dsp: No such device
and here is my ls -lc
rwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 3 Apr 14 17:44 /dev/dsp

i have no clue why it doesn't work anymore. Any help. (i tried differnt sound players, non worked)

[Gaccm]

WHAT THE ?!?!?!?! sound is working now (no /dev/dsp error) but i bet the next time i reboot it will stop working :(

[Craig McPherson]

If /dev/dsp doesn't exist, it means your sound module isn't inserted. Modprobe the emu10k module, just like you did the first time, and things should work again.

Modules have to be re-inserted at every boot. To learn how to have a module inserted automatically at boot, see your distro's documentation: every distro uses a different file for that. On Debian, for example, any module listed in /etc/modules is loaded at boottime.

[Gaccm]

perhaps i wasn't clear. The output from ls, showed that it DID exist. And, i do have /etc/modutils/emu10k1 and "alias sound emu10k1" in /etc/modules.conf.