I just upgraded my sound card from Soundblaster Live to Soundblaster Live 5.1. I also upgraded my speakers from a 2.1 to a 5.1 analog speaker set. I keep getting nothing but static (hardware movement noise) in the center speaker and subwoofer. I don't think I am getting rear speaker support either. I removed the old Live! via Yast2, and it automatically detected the new Live! 5.1. I added emutools but emu-config emu-script emu-dspmgr fail with errors: john:john> emu-config SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Input/output error john:john> emu-dspmgr /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy /home/john # emu-script /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy If I shut off the sound server, they don't error, but they don't do anything either. I believe this is an analog/digital problem. Analog speakers, and digitial output. I modified the /etc/emu10k1.conf to reflect this, but it had no effect (current settings follow this email). I saw this problem alot on the internet for both windows and linux, but no solutions for Linux that I could find. Any help or ideas appreciated. If it is an analog/digital problem, I can't figure out how to change it to analog other then in the emu10k1.conf file, so could someone maybe explain that? Many thanks, -Jeric /etc/emu10k1.conf settings (the old/defaults had the same effect): CARD_IS_5_1=yes USE_DIGITAL_OUTPUT=no ENABLE_TONE_CONTROL=yes AC3PASSTHROUGH=no ENABLE_LIVEDRIVE_IR=no INVERT_REAR=no MULTICHANNEL=yes ROUTE_ALL_TO_SUB=no ANALOG_FRONT_BOOST=no SURROUND=yes PROLOGIC=yes ENABLE_CD_Spdif=no ENABLE_OPTICAL_SPDIF=no ENABLE_LINE2_MIC2=no ENABLE_RCA_SPDIF=no ENABLE_RCA_AUX=no -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 9:39am up 38 min, 6 users, load average: 0.24, 0.35, 0.34