I just installed the 2.6.10-1.753_FC3smp kernel from FC3 Testing and my sound is suddenly much louder! Previously I was running the 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp kernel. The sound device is: 02:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB (rev 07) The modules loaded are: snd_intel8x0 33889 2 snd_ac97_codec 68513 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss 51573 0 snd_mixer_oss 21313 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 89541 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 27077 1 snd_pcm snd 54821 8 snd_intel8x0, snd_ac97_codec, snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss, snd_pcm, snd_timer soundcore 12961 2 snd snd_page_alloc 13509 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm Comments? -- Gene