Thanks to everyone who responded. Yes the driver below is the one that is correct for this laptop. Everythong seems to load fine per lsmod and the output of /etc/rc.d/alsa start Now if I try to play for example the windows_logon.wav file I get a high piercing yet quiet tone from the speakers. I type 'aplay win.wav' and get the following output. root at gallegos:/usr/bin# aplay /tmp/win.wav Playing WAVE '/tmp/win.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo This piercing sound is what I'm guessing to be my mixer settings to not be set correctly even though I've tried: amixer sset Master 100 unmute amixer sset pcm 100 unmute amixer sset Wave 100 unmute None of those seems to help though. I'm definately making progress but not quite there yet. The asound.conf file from speakup's ftp site is outdated with these drivers it seems so I have not used it. jacobs at surferie.net said the following on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:31:54PM -0500: > Hi > Did you try the snd-card-ymfpci driver? As I recall the system in the Tecra 8100 is a yamaha DSXG (YMF7XX) chipset, exactly the chipset I've got in my satellite pro 4340. > > -- Raul A. Gallegos -- Sprint BWG Systems Administration Network Operations Center 9300 Metcalf Ave. Overland Park, KS 66212 Office:913/534.5603 PCS:913/488.3011 mailto:raul.a.gallegos at mail.sprint.com