Hi, I have a quick question about alsasound and kernel modules. I was previously using the on-board sound of my Abit KT600 motherboard, which uses the via82xx sound chip. I wanted to try a different soundcard to see if it fixed some problems I am having, so disabled sound in the BIOS, and installed a Creative card (ensoniq 1371). Yast autodetected the card, but did not configure it properly, since the module for the via82xx hardware is still being loaded automatically by alsasound at boot time. I have checked, and Yast does not see the old hardware (via82xx), and there is no mention of it in either /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/sound. Yast does see the new card (en1371), and if I try to configure it with alsaconf it finds it aswell, but when it runs the alsasound startup script is loads 2 instances of en1371 and one of via82xx!!!!??? Why is the system still installing this driver? How can I "tell" the kernel not to bother looking for this bit of hardware? Is this indicative of something wrong with my system? Hope someone can work out what's going wrong. Cheers, Jon. -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant. PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: +44(0)1865-282654 fax: +44(0)1865-282656 web: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon