Thanks for the response! I've heard that there are several flavors of this card. Mine is a PCI card from Dell. On Tuesday 17 June 2003 06:12 am, Dale Kosan wrote: > I have a SoundblasterLive! Value and it worked from the get go, > something else maybe? > > 09:11:42 up 23:33, 2 users, load average: 1.04, 1.07, 1.03 I would appreciate if you would collect and post back this information from your system - as root run the following: root[2197] lspci -vv | grep -i creative 02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1003 02:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device controller Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1003 My RH9.0 distribution didn't come with an EMU10k1X driver. Regards, FrankK