Hi, Am running Suse 10.2 X64, and up until the other day, working perfectly (well, almost.) Have had a few issues intermittently with the audio drivers (onboard, Realtek/Intel/VIA/Azalia HD Audio), with trying to get some applications to 'share' the sound card, but nothing huge.. until now! Thought I would be clever (1st mistake!) and see if there were any drivers specifically for the sound card, so came across realtek-linux-audiopack-4.05f on the Realtek site (http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#High Definition Audio Codecs) Installed and since have no sound at all. in KDE if trying to play sound, either get nothing, or the message "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers." KMix shows up as empty. Trying to use Yast (it recognises VIA High Definition Audio Controller - Not configured) to update drivers gives me :" an error occurred during the installation of VIA High Defintion Audio Controller. The kernel module snd-hda-intel for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters." After having done this, running lsmod shows that the module IS actually loaded, but get the same messages.... I REALLY don't want to have to rebuild the OS. Can't find any uninstall for realtek-linux-audiopack-4.05f?? Have deleted the directory created and makes no difference. I'm NOT an expert, but know a little.... I'm assuming that there is a module loading that shouldn't be... or something wrong with the loading of a module, but can't figure out where all of that is done. Any help appreciated!! John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org