> I don't think the kernel you choose right now is as important as getting > the sound drivers working well. I use 2.4.20 still on Gentoo, and a > newer 2.4.23 on Redhat. They both work fine. > > I think you should get moved up to Alsa-1.0.0rcxxx as soon as is > practical. There have been changes to APIs and lots of fixes to things. > It's what you want to run. > xmms is an OSS application, so you must have OSS emulation loaded > correctly. I run xmms all the time, so it will work. I can see some of > it above, but it would be helpful if you provided your modules.conf file > contents. (For me anyway...) ;-) > > Cheers, > MArk Hi Mark, I bumped up to alsa driver/utils 1.0.0rc2, now the rme9652 module isnt happening... from /etc/modules.d/alsa: ## ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-rme9652 ## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 ## OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 dmesg: RME Digi9652/Digi9636: no cards found lspci: 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME Digi9652 (Hammerfall) (rev 03) /etc/modules.conf: http://www.planetofidiots.com/modules.conf many thanks!