Hi Buddy. One thing you might try is downloading the free download from www.opensound.com and trying that to see if it makes your sblive or you motherboard sound chip (or you could try both) work. If you were going to use it permanently, of course, you'd have to pay for it, but if you just tried it and it worked, you could check the irqs and any other settings you can think of and maybe diagnose the problem. Only you have to disable sound in your kernel and get rid of your alsa modules to do it. I know when I had FC2 up the oss version they were offering for fedora core offered to do all that for you, but I don't think the regular linux version does that. Of course, another option is also to try the kernel oss and see what that does; I realize you probably want to use alsa but these are just purely diagnostic suggestions. Hth. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
