Having totally bashed my sound system going from a kraxel 2.6.2 kernel back to a k_athlon-2.4.21-166 with a munged /etc/modules.conf I cannot get my Ensoniq 1371 Audio PCI sound card to operate with KDE3.2. One thing I have noticed is that the symlinks are missing and I added one in /dev so that $ ls -l /dev/dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2004-02-12 14:49 /dev/dsp -> dsp0 And now I can run mplayer and play wave sounds but KDE still cannot initialize the sound system not startup a mixer. Can someone be so kind to do the following on a 2.4.21-166 kernel and send me the output? $ find /dev -type l -print | xargs ls -l On the offchance that it is a missing symlink. I uninstalled all alsa 1.0.1-9 rpms and reinstalled the alsa 0.9.6 counterparts and recovered my old /etc/modules.conf file. TIA. Here is a lsmod(8) Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-seq 41424 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-oss 49728 0 (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 15576 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] videodev 6272 0 (autoclean) st 29648 0 (autoclean) (unused) sr_mod 14616 0 (autoclean) sg 35232 0 (autoclean) isa-pnp 32712 0 (unused) usbserial 19836 0 (autoclean) (unused) usbcore 64364 0 (autoclean) [usbserial] parport_pc 28648 1 (autoclean) lp 6304 0 (autoclean) parport 25608 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] thermal 6180 0 (unused) processor 8312 0 [thermal] snd-ens1371 15304 0 fan 1472 0 (unused) snd-pcm 74148 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371] snd-page-alloc 6676 0 [snd-pcm] snd-timer 17024 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 15968 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4528 0 [snd-seq snd-rawmidi] gameport 1692 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-ac97-codec 45400 0 [snd-ens1371] snd 40388 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] button 2380 0 (unused) soundcore 3940 0 [snd] battery 5600 0 (unused) ac 1696 0 (unused) ipt_TOS 1048 9 (autoclean) ipt_MASQUERADE 1368 1 (autoclean) ipt_LOG 3384 1 (autoclean) ipt_TCPMSS 2392 1 (autoclean) ipt_state 568 22 (autoclean) af_packet 13192 1 (autoclean) 3c59x 27024 2 ipt_REJECT 3288 3 (autoclean) iptable_mangle 2168 1 (autoclean) iptable_filter 1708 1 (autoclean) ip6table_filter 1804 0 (unused) ip_nat_ftp 2992 0 (unused) iptable_nat 16366 2 [ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_ftp] ip_conntrack_ftp 3920 1 ip_conntrack 18084 3 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack_ftp] ip_tables 11328 11 [ipt_TOS ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_TCPMSS ipt_state ipt_REJECT iptable_mangle iptable_filter iptable_nat] ip6_tables 12148 1 [ip6table_filter] ide-scsi 11056 0 scsi_mod 100788 4 [st sr_mod sg ide-scsi] ide-cd 32416 0 cdrom 29216 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4348 1 (autoclean) vfat 11052 1 (autoclean) fat 32792 0 (autoclean) [vfat] reiserfs 217236 1 (autoclean) lvm-mod 65668 0 (autoclean) dm-mod 46928 0 (unused) xfs 578268 1 -- _/_/_/ Bob Pearson gottadoit@mailsnare.net _/_/_/ "The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a _/_/_/ question, but to post the wrong information." - Aahz' Law