Hello Brian, If you can, determine what the exact name of your sound card's driver is in Fedora. Then do a modprobe >soundcard? to get it going again. I'm using an ESS Maestro3 on my laptop, so to start it in Linux I type modprobe maestro3 HTH Steve Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net