Hi, I'm new to this list, so apologies if this is old ground.. I have a Soundblaster AWE64 Gold from Creative Labs running on a SuSE 7.1 install. The card is half-working.. My overall aim is to record audio from line in and output to WAV file. The documents that I've been working from are: Takashi Iwai http://mitglied.lycos.de/iwai/awedrv.html Steve Crowder http://www.dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/fe88/awe64config.shtml Marcus Brinkman http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/Soundblaster-AWE-HOWTO.h... and also the Sound HOWTO. From watching the output of dmesg, /var/log/messages and reading from /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports everything seems ok (i.e. consistent with output from the above authors) with one ommission--the output of /dev/sndstat says 'No such device'. Functionally, the configuration lets me send output to the card--'cat drumroll.au /dev/audio' plays a drum roll, but reading from input fails using the command: 'dd bs=8k count=4 </dev/audio >sample.au'. The config I'm using is based heavily on Steve Crowders document (more below). How to explain the misconfiguration of /dev/sndstat.. Is it likely to be a kernel compilation issue? Kernel is 2.4.19 and lsmod lists: awe_wave 156160 0 sb 7328 0 sb_lib 33616 0 [sb] uart401 6096 0 [sb_lib] sound 55056 0 [awe_wave sb_lib uart401] or an /etc/modules.conf issue modules.conf has: #***************************************************************************** # Configuration to use Creative SB AWE64 Gold with PnP and OSS driver alias char-major-14 sb alias synth0 awe_wave pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 alias sound-slot-0 sb alias sound-service-0-0 sb alias sound-service-0-3 sb # end of sound #***************************************************************************** (alsa is installed but disabled in rc.config) or somewhere else entirely, perhaps in the configuration for awelib (awesfx-0.4.4). Or in the setup of /dev/sndstat, or perhaps sndstat is a distraction and there's a simple problem such as zero volume coming from line-in, or.. All clues will be pursued! cheers Gavin -- Gavin Johnson <gavin@fnarg.net>