hi, i got it working using isapnp. i will list the details on the linux newbie group. thanks to all randy sp>On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Kerry Hoath wrote: sp>> It is the vibra 16-x card that is hard to make work; the one with sp>>2 8-bit dma channels. Linux has trouble driving them in full sp>>duplex mode and the Alsa folks say that the card is sp>>semi-supported. If it is a normal vibra16 they are easy enough to sp>make work, I managed to get one working back in 98 it must have sp>> been with the old oss/free drivers under kernel 2.0.27 sp>Here's the output of CTCM.EXE that was posted to blinux-newbie: sp>> Creative Plug and Play Configuration Manager (v1.08) sp>> Copyright (C) Creative Technology Ltd., 1995-1997. All rights sp>reserved. > sp>> Found Creative Plug and Play card : Creative ViBRA16X sp>PnP > sp>> Successfully configured 2 of 2 Creative Plug and Play devices. sp>> BLASTER environment is set at: A220 I5 D1 H1 P330 T6 sp>This would sound like it's one of those vibra16x cards then. sp>Geoff. sp>-- sp>Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> sp>ICQ number 43634701 sp>_______________________________________________ sp>Speakup mailing list sp>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca sp>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup