I really don't understand how this happens. I have installed a new video card. Have not even gotten to the point of being able to try and setup that thing yet but the video is at least working at basic level. The sound system however has stopped responding. When I installed the new BFG nVIDEA 6600 card, I had read about how newer video cards run pretty hot. And this one is overclocked, so I thought it a good idea to shift the sound card down one slot to move it away from the video card. I checked the BIOS and although I recall from 'the past' that most times a BIOS setup screen allowed assignment of IRQ's to certain slots on the board. But in this newer SOYO K7VM333 board, no such setting. The system now starts up with this error showing in the bootup sequence: Starting Sound Driver: emu10k1 done Restoring the previous Sound Setting: failed but continues to loadup KDE, and after the desktop starts to stabilize, I get this; Error amarok amaroK could not find any sound-engine plugins. It is likely that amaroK is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using: cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/ su -c "make uninstall" ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` && su -c "make install" More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net. I have not yet attempted to perform this task, since I think the problem is not with amarok but with the sound system at its most basic level. Normally I get the KMix icon in the tray. Now I do not. I tried to start the Control Center and when I choose Sound & Multimedia / Sound System, it starts with this error: Error KDE Control Module There was an error loading the module. The diagnostics is: libresmgr.so.0.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Possible reasons: An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module. You have old third party modules lying around. Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message. If this fails, consider contacting your distributor or packager. So off I go to remove this errant libresmgr.so.0.1 since the system thinks it either orphaned or an old version...or have I misunderstood the error mssg.?... I used YaST to search for the term libresmgr and got no results. ?? Searching the system from / with all subdirectories... no results. ?? The system seems to complain about the presence of a file which doesn't exist. Also checking the SuSE Hardware Tool for Sound options and find that the sound card is not configured, showing removed. Nothing I did there seemed to help. I tried a lot of things here, various options for installation and setup of the sound card, and could not save settings and/or could not make the card recognized. So I shut down and moved the sound card back to the original slot. All remains the same with the alsa sound system still disabled, showing same error at bootup, but now the SuSE Hardware Tool does recognize the SoundBlaster card, yet it cannot save the config or setup info. Throws this error: An error occurred during the installation of SB AWE 64 The kernel module snd-emu10k1x for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. I know you gurus have some ideas where I should start and how to fix this mess. And maybe someone can offer some ideas/educated opinions about why such a mess was caused just by changing a video system hardware component? Among other things I'm curious about, I'd like to know why I can't swap PCI slots with this card and have it all still work just the same? For me, it isn't all about getting it working; its also about understanding why. Someone give me a push? I gotta get the sound working so I can start trying to setup the video card. Thanks! Steve In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates? Registered Linux User #287453 ---------------------------------------- '87 Street Comanche #24/100 '92 Cherokee '88 Grand Wagoneer '87 Grand Wagoneer ...and they say there's only one... --------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze