I have a new EPoX 8K3A motherboard with on-board audio: AC97 VIA8233. Just my luck this is not working with SuSE (7.3 or 8.0). I downloaded the new alsa from SuSE's web site (see http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/thallma_alsaup_80.html), but this did not help. Here is some information about the failure, etc... =================[ alsaconf output (when playing sample sound) ]=============== Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo xrun!!! (at least 0.022 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.012 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.012 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.012 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.012 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.012 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.013 ms long) xrun!!! (at least 0.012 ms long) ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:413:(snd_pcm_hw_drain) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN failed: Input/output error =============================================================================== ========================[ modules.conf from alsaconf ]========================= # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 0.9.0 --- alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 options snd-via8233 snd_index=0 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- =====================[ xconsole output when logging on to kde ]================ May 15 18:16:43 avalon kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:178: BUG: stream = 0, pos = 0x7c04000, buffer size = 0x4000, period size = 0x1000 May 15 18:17:05 avalon last message repeated 20 times May 15 18:17:10 avalon kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:1727: BUG? (substream != ((void *)0)) (called from c78be43b) May 15 18:17:40 avalon kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:1727: BUG? (substream != ((void *)0)) (called from c78be43b) May 15 18:18:40 avalon last message repeated 3 times May 15 18:19:05 avalon kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:178: BUG: stream = 0, pos = 0x7c01800, buffer size = 0x2800, period size = 0x400 May 15 18:19:16 avalon last message repeated 52 times May 15 18:19:40 avalon kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:1727: BUG? (substream != ((void *)0)) (called from c78be43b) May 15 18:20:19 avalon last message repeated 2 times May 15 18:20:23 avalon last message repeated 25 times May 15 18:20:44 avalon kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64 May 15 18:20:49 avalon kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:178: BUG: stream = 0, pos = 0x7c04000, buffer size = 0x4000, period size = 0x1000 May 15 18:21:02 avalon last message repeated 20 times May 15 18:21:10 avalon kernel: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:1727: BUG? (substream != ((void *)0)) (called from c78be43b) May 15 18:22:01 avalon last message repeated 2 times May 15 18:22:40 avalon last message repeated 4 times May 15 18:23:49 avalon last message repeated 10 times May 15 18:24:40 avalon last message repeated 2 times =================[ lsmod output ]============================================== Module Size Used by Tainted: PF snd-via8233 5572 0 snd-pcm 55552 0 [snd-via8233] snd-timer 10976 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 24356 0 [snd-via8233] snd 29960 0 [snd-via8233 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 3268 0 [snd] vmnet 17824 1 vmppuser 6432 0 (unused) parport_pc 25448 0 parport 21856 0 [vmppuser parport_pc] vmmon 19700 0 (unused) vfat 9244 0 (autoclean) fat 28984 0 (autoclean) [vfat] ipv6 123424 -1 (autoclean) mousedev 3872 1 joydev 5728 0 (unused) hid 17824 0 (unused) input 3072 0 [mousedev joydev hid] st 25844 0 (autoclean) sg 23620 0 (autoclean) usb-uhci 20996 0 (unused) usbcore 55136 1 [hid usb-uhci] 8139too 13504 1 mii 1040 0 [8139too] lvm-mod 58016 0 (autoclean) ext3 60160 2 jbd 42196 2 [ext3] aic7xxx 105824 6 -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net