This is an update to what I posted back in May:
I have started using VLocity64 (7.0.1), and at first I had trouble getting Alsa to install at startup. I solved that by disabling my motherboard's built-in sound system (it turned out that VLocity64 doesn't like it for whatever reason) and I installed a third-party sound card instead (Soundblaster Live 24-bit) which works as described back in May, and yes, I read through the post by overthere, which brings up the following question - Is there a way to configure Alsa, and if so, how do I go about it?
And what would be the Vector Linux equivalent of the information found in the following link -
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA#HTML5_does_not_play_in_firefox_browser ?