Terry, What happens when you attempt to play a sound? Does the software chug away as if it is playing? Now if the above is true, I would recomend that you double check that the speaker is plugged into the right jack and that it is powered. (Even better if this card was working fine in Windows without any change outside the OS. I would also recomend that you change consoles and go into interactive mode of alsamixer. That may leave some more clues here. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Cluelessness There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots