> I bought a laptop toshiba A10 - S213 pentium 4 - 516 Mo and I > installed mandrake 9.2 on it, i use it with the multimedia kernel > of mandrake. I would like to know if one of you could access to the > bios of this kind of machine On my Portege 7010 I have to hit Esc and F1 really fast as soon as the Toshiba splash screen appears on power-up. Maybe you more recent model is the same. As for the soundcard priority problem, are you running the kdm login manager? This can cause an X priority problem on mandrake, I've found. Cheers Daniel