thanks for the replies i just added the re: myself, i have a feeling when i use reply it's not getting back to the list. after installing gnome and then going back to kde i can play mp3s on xmms in kde. cd's play intermittantly on xmms, no sound with kscd. i don't really understand the kde questions, i installed the default kde desktop, i assume it installed it's sound server. i don't remember having the oppotunity to choose anything. in control center > sound system i have sound disabled right now but under hardware > audio device alsa was selected by default. the kernel is the original from the dvd, i was advised not to update during a new install. haven't done anything since because i haven't found info explaining why i should yet. alsamixer settings always come up umuted and with a decent level for the main values, master, pcm etc. i can't speak for all of them - there are way too many!!! here's lsmod; Module Size Used by vfat 16000 0 fat 48320 1 vfat nls_iso8859_1 5504 1 ntfs 85336 1 snd_seq_oss 35840 0 snd_seq_midi 10304 0 snd_emu10k1_synth 9856 0 snd_emux_synth 44288 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 9216 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_event 9216 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul 9728 1 snd_emux_synth pppoe 15360 0 pppox 4240 1 pppoe af_packet 23052 2 ppp_generic 31904 4 pppoe,pppox slhc 8192 1 ppp_generic nls_utf8 2560 0 snd_seq 59840 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul joydev 11264 0 sg 40248 0 st 41764 0 sd_mod 20992 0 sr_mod 17700 0 scsi_mod 127392 4 sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod floppy 63728 0 usbserial 34424 0 parport_pc 39616 1 lp 12008 0 parport 45196 2 parport_pc,lp ehci_hcd 29444 0 uhci_hcd 32800 0 ohci1394 33412 0 ieee1394 114392 1 ohci1394 evdev 10752 0 cpufreq_userspace 6880 0 powernow_k8 9480 0 ipv6 279144 13 snd_pcm_oss 63908 0 freq_table 5128 1 powernow_k8 snd_mixer_oss 21376 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_ioctl32 17920 0 thermal 14348 0 processor 18108 2 powernow_k8,thermal fan 4488 0 snd_emu10k1 95268 8 snd_emu10k1_synth button 7200 0 battery 9608 0 ac 5640 0 snd_rawmidi 28192 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm 113036 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ioctl32,snd_emu10k1 snd_timer 27400 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_seq_device 9612 7 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 72324 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 13192 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 5888 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 11400 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd 66440 33 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ioctl32,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep soundcore 10784 1 snd usbcore 113520 5 usbserial,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd r8169 18564 0 subfs 8960 2 dm_mod 55480 0 reiserfs 239472 1 here's dmesg (i don't even see the souncard but then again suse seems to have it's own way of configuring things - i've never seen coldplug?!); Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x317 console=tty0 desktop resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent) Linux version 2.6.4-52-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Wed Apr 7 02:15:23 UTC 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff8000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) ACPI: have wakeup address 0x10000001000 No mptable found. No mptable found. On node 0 totalpages: 131056 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 PCI bridge 00:01 from 1106 found. Setting "noapic". Overwrite with "apic" ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x00000000000f9f30 ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K8 0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000001fff0000 ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K8 0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000001fff0030 ACPI: MADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K8 0x00000009 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000001fff00c0 ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA VIA_K8 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x0000000000000000 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 16 ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to 'noapic' option. Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: VIA <6>Product ID: K8T400 <6>APIC at: 0xFEE00000 I/O APIC #2 Version 3 at 0xFEC00000. Processors: 1 Checking aperture... CPU 0: aperture @ d0000000 size 128 MB Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x317 console=tty0 desktop resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent bootsplash: silent mode. Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 16 (order 4: 256 bytes) CKRM Initialized time.c: Using 1.193182 MHz PIT timer. time.c: Detected 2200.162 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Memory: 511040k/524224k available (2166k kernel code, 12416k reserved, 848k data, 172k init) Calibrating delay loop... 4325.37 BogoMIPS Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed. Failure registering capabilities with the kernel selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Looking for DSDT in initrd ...No customized DSDT found in initrd! CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line) CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ stepping 08 POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Using local APIC NMI watchdog using perfctr0 Using local APIC timer interrupts. Detected 12.500 MHz APIC timer. do_initcalls init_elf32_binfmt init_elf_binfmt NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 No customized DSDT found! ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger. ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ... the first call_usermodehelper: pci_bus ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off' agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0 agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000 PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU. vesafb: framebuffer at 0xb0000000, mapped to 0xffffff000004d000, size 16384k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device Initial HugeTLB pages allocated: 0 IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $ ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config* VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks Initializing Cryptographic API bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... silentjpeg size 37245 bytes, found (1024x768, 17142 bytes, v3). Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 118x41 Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 128000K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.0 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: WDC WD800JB-00FMA0, ATA DISK drive Using anticipatory io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4521B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: hda1 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 > hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW CD-MRW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: PC Speaker serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) NET: Registered protocol family 1 Resume Machine: resuming from /dev/hda5 Resuming from device hda5 Resume Machine: This is normal swap space ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). ReiserFS: hda7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: hda7: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: hda7: journal params: device hda7, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: hda7: checking transaction log (hda7) ReiserFS: hda7: Using r5 hash to sort names VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed Unmounting old root Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed Adding 506004k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:42 extents:1 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com subfs 0.9 r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'. eth0: RTL8169 at 0xffffff00010ca700, 00:0c:76:e7:81:d5, IRQ 11 eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled. eth0: 100Mbps Full-duplex operation. drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1) NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device ffffffff803a8ec0(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver powernow-k8: Found AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processor (version 1.20.07 - March 18, 2004) powernow-k8: Found AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processor (version 1.20.07 - March 18, 2004) powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' ohci1394: $Rev: 1193 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[cffff800-cfffffff] Max Packet=[2048] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 11, io base 000000000000d800 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 usb usb1: Product: UHCI Host Controller usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.4-52-default uhci_hcd usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.0 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 11, io base 000000000000dc00 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 usb usb2: Product: UHCI Host Controller usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.4-52-default uhci_hcd usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.1 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 5, io base 000000000000e000 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 usb usb3: Product: UHCI Host Controller usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.4-52-default uhci_hcd usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.2 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 5, io base 000000000000e400 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 usb usb4: Product: UHCI Host Controller usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.4-52-default uhci_hcd usb usb4: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.3 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0000000000000000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 10, pci mem ffffff0001174500 ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29 usb usb5: Product: EHCI Host Controller usb usb5: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.4-52-default ehci_hcd usb usb5: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.4 hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: irq 7 detected lp0: using parport0 (polling). hub 5-0:1.0: over-current change on port 5 hub 5-0:1.0: over-current change on port 6 hub 5-0:1.0: over-current change on port 7 hub 5-0:1.0: over-current change on port 8 drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbserial drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0 inserting floppy driver for 2.6.4-52-default Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 SCSI subsystem initialized st: Version 20040318, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 eth0: no IPv6 routers present mtrr: 0xb0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xb0000000,0x1000000 ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISOFS: changing to secondary root CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 NET: Registered protocol family 17 NET: Registered protocol family 24 NTFS driver 2.1.6 [Flags: R/O MODULE]. NTFS volume version 3.1. ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISOFS: changing to secondary root end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) here's /proc/interrupts; CPU0 0: 9233944 XT-PIC timer 1: 4019 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 71725 XT-PIC EMU10K1, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd 8: 0 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC acpi 10: 3 XT-PIC ohci1394, ehci_hcd 11: 254 XT-PIC eth0, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd 12: 106762 XT-PIC i8042 14: 25022 XT-PIC ide0 15: 18521 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 557 LOC: 9232715 ERR: 1 MIS: 0