Yes. If you plan to use sound heavily, the kernel drivers are not the way to go. However, the machine that I have my sb16 card in is not used very much. I especially don't do a lot on it with sound, just because I use my newer boxes for that. Greg On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:38:34PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > Ok I may try that. I have heard that the kernel driver is not as good as > alsa, especially when getting speakfreely to work. Is this true? > -- > A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up > yours!"