* Albert E. Sten-Clanton <albert.e.sten_clanton at verizon.net> wrote: > Mika, thanks for telling me about the soundtest command. It told > me on my screen that the sound card seems to work, but there was > no sound from the card. My speakers are on, volume up. I wonder > if something got connected wrong, but I know too little to guess > sensibly. Again, though, thanks for the help to this point. If soundtest reports "It looks like sound works for you. :-)" it's very probably that the mixer settings aren't ok. Check output of 'aumix -q' (compare with another, working system for example) and whether 'amixer set Front unmute 1; amixer set Front 75%' helps. -mika- -- ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/ ( grml.org -? Linux Live-CD for texttool-users and sysadmins `._,' http://www.grml.org/