Hi Austin I've reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10 several times now. Apart from the Wine/GPro I also had problems with the login window (fonts very large and not adjustable). On reinstall #2, I get a kernel update - the login window problem disappeared. On reinstall #3, the Wine/Gpro problem disappeared (i.e. The ALSA problem) but the login window problem returned. Whether or not both of these problems are kernel based I don't know. I have downloaded a fresh 8.10 Desktop iso and I'll see if that does a better job. Thanks for your help. Graham
