I have a CA0103-dbq sound card for my desktop which I had to use instead of in built card. I have the driver called AU8850 for windows which came along with it. Now I need to use my sound card in linux also(I am using slackware dual boot with XP). Also searched for driver on alsa but did not find the chipset listed.Can somebody provide me a solution for how can I use sound on my linux system now?

Boot into Linux and post the output of the commands "lspci" and "lsmod" here. We need to see what the chip set is that this device uses (lspci), as well as any drivers that may be associated with it (lsmod).

sorry guys.... actually I still have not found the driver. I am using Slackware 14

output of lsmod is

Module                  Size  Used by
ppp_deflate             3358  0 
bsd_comp                4806  0 
ppp_async               6230  1 
crc_ccitt               1087  1 ppp_async
ppp_generic            19944  7 ppp_async,bsd_comp,ppp_deflate
slhc                    4358  1 ppp_generic
cdc_acm                13700  3 
rndis_wlan             21512  0 
rndis_host              4943  1 rndis_wlan
cdc_ether               3498  1 rndis_host
usbnet                 12926  3 cdc_ether,rndis_host,rndis_wlan
cfg80211              145277  1 rndis_wlan
rfkill                 12432  1 cfg80211
mii                     3335  1 usbnet
ipv6                  238549  22 
lp                      7119  0 
fuse                   58282  13 
i915                  372988  2 
video                   9938  1 i915
drm_kms_helper         22825  1 i915
ppdev                   4710  0 
parport_pc             16755  1 
drm                   151850  3 drm_kms_helper,i915
processor              23020  0 
thermal_sys            12122  2 processor,video
i2c_algo_bit            4543  1 i915
intel_agp               8712  1 i915
intel_gtt              11571  3 intel_agp,i915
psmouse                54408  0 
agpgart                22087  3 intel_gtt,intel_agp,drm
i2c_i801                6952  0 
i2c_core               16454  5 i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit,drm,drm_kms_helper,i915
shpchp                 22649  0 
parport                26159  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
serio_raw               3349  0 
button                  3665  1 i915
evdev                   7314  5 
hwmon                   1033  1 thermal_sys
loop                   14650  0 

output of lspci -vvxx is

01:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
    Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 1001
    Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 32 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 6
    Region 0: I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]
    Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00: 02 11 06 00 05 00 90 02 00 00 01 04 00 20 00 00
10: 01 bc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 11 01 10
30: 00 00 00 00 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 01 02 14

output of lspci

01:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
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