I posted this issue some time ago but got no answer, that could help me resolve it, so, here I am again, in hope of getting some better help this time: No matter what I do, I cannot get any sound out of my system, except for the various dings & clicks of the user interface in Gnome. I am trying to use the CD & audio players in Gnome or in KDE but nothing is heard (although the applications seem to work O.K.). I am confident that my sound card (ESS Maestro3) is recognised by the OS at boot time, since the system log mentions its name and configuration (identical to those derived under Windows XP). As an additional proof of evidence, I get the sounds of the Gnome UI. The only thing, that troubles me, is the following messages (in various parts of the system log): modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3, modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0, modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1. I strongly suspect that the roots of my problem are in these messages. What do they mean and what should I do in order to resolve this? TIA, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, Software Engineer, SAP-R/3 specialist, Registered Linux User #305894, Ximian Evolution (ver.1.4) on Red Hat Linux (8.0), Athens, GREECE, cell-phone: +306946462857, fax: +302108054420, e-mail: panosplaton@xxxxx, panosplaton@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list