Anybody using OSS?

On the advice of someone who said that Second Life works better with OSS than it does with ALSA, I installed OSS and removed ALSA from my list of startup daemons in rc.conf, then rebooted.
When I try to start OSS using soundon or manually with modprobe osscore, I get:
FATAL: Error inserting osscore (/lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/oss/osscore.ko): Invalid module format
nothing that I can tell is wrong with it.  File reports
/lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/oss/osscore.ko: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
I'm using the stock kernel26, everything updated to bleeding edge as of this morning; CPU is AMD Athlon x64 and sound card is an onboard Intel HD which works fine with ALSA (except some voice chat features in Second Life that I was hoping to clear up with OSS).
I have no idea what "Invalid file format" even means.  The only google result for it references a bug #564202 in Debian that is marked as closed as of March 2010, but a download of the binaries from opensound.com gives me no modules -- only userspace files.  Since those are useless without working modules, the fix from OSS doesn't help.
Any clue what that error means and how to fix it?

Yes I did, thanks.  No conflicting sound drivers are being loaded, and I don't get an error like "device /dev/pcm is already in use".  It just refuses to load the module because it is an "invalid file format".
I built a custom kernel -- which entailed compiling new OSS modules -- and OSS loads just fine from the custom kernel. Unfortunately I can't use that either because nVidia won't install ("you are using a xen kernel!", which I'm not), but that's a whole 'nother can of frustration.
{sigh} I guess given the choices between no voice chat in a single game, no sound at all, or sound but no video drivers I'll go back to ALSA and live without voice chat.  But it's little irritations like this which drive me off in search of another distro... and then I come crawling back when I find all the others are even worse.  What was it somebody posted in my rant thread the last time I came back to Arch?  "Arch: The distro that doesn't suck as much as the others"

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