Hi You do not need SB16 nor the AWE64 drivers. In fact, mixing alsa versions like that is a recipe for trouble. You want the emu10k1 drivers. I configured alsa like this: ./configure --with-sequencer=yes You do not need the --with-sb16 nor the --with-isapnp=yes options. SB Live is a PCI-based card, not an ISA-based one. Thus it does not use ISA pnp. Simply let it compile all alsa drivers for all cards. After you do a make install of these drivers, be sure to run ./snddevices. Now, load the snd-card-emu10k1 and OSS emulation modules. If that doesn't work, just use the opensource.creative.com drivers, they work much better at the present time. Charles Hallenbeck writes: > Can someone please help me with the installation of the alsa drivers > (version 5.9) with my new sound card, an "sblive" device? I compiled the > alsa-drivers, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils after configuring with the options > "--with-isapnp=yes" and "--with-sb16" (there was no choice show;n for > 'sblive' in the list of cards). The three packages compiled and installed > as modules okay. I next plugged in my old lines from the previous setup > (version 4.1 of also with the awe-64 card) together witrh the 'modprobe' > lines that loaded them. My bootup messages tell me that no sb16 cards can > be found and the modules fail to load properly. If this is all too > confusing, I apologize - but I am all too confused myself.