Hell folks, SuSE 5.1 here. I am able to cat foo.au > /dev/audio and hear sound through the speakers. I am able to use rvplayer to listen to Real Audio on the net. I am not able to listen to an audio CD through the speakers (headphones work). /dev/sndstat looks ok (will post if needed). the files in /dev (/dev/audio, /dev/dsp, /dev/midi, /dev/mixer, /dev/music, /dev/patmgr, /dev/sequencer) all look to have the correct major and minor numbers. /proc/devices shows the sound driver compiled in. The card is an ESS1688. Anyone able to help? -- Mike Fieschko, who lives in West Orange, New Jersey, USA fieschko@viconet.com - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e