I have a Dell workstation with a cs4236b sound card on the motherboard. At first, I was able to configure the sound card fine using YaST, but unable to get the card to play afterward. After much trial and error, I found I was able to get the card working after using various sound configuration programs, such as kmix and amixer. So I have sound until I log off, at which point it all starts over again -- I have no sound until I go to modify the settings again. It's almost like something is being loaded by the programs that isn't loaded at startup. BTW, I tried alsaconf as well and all went well and the card played upon configuration -- in contrast to the behavior using YaST -- but still whenever I log in, no sound until I configure the card again. Might anybody have some insight on this problem? Thanks, Rob