Hi all, Sound-on-Linux is my major weakness. All the other technical stuff is classified as minor weaknesses :-) So here goes nothing.. I have a soundcard [big-deal] which is actually an nForce2 audio chipset [supporting ac97 codec on board and] driven by i8x0 driver from alsa [configured using YaST]. Clock setting was specified as 0 in the setup. My problem was that when I played VCDs etc in Windows, all went fine. But when I played VCDs in Linux, I had a really bad sound. The CD quality [or close to it] sound sampled like a really bad mp3 [and this was before I converted to mp3, while reading directly from VCD]. Mplayer tells the sampling rate in the vicinity of 48000 bps. I have done enough googling, so I may not be blamed for not trying :-) I have the following questions 1. Setting this ac97_clock option to 0 means autodetect. Does it mean that sampling rate of the card shall change depending upon the incoming audio stream? Or does it mean that the clock speed [is that the same as sampling rate?] shall be set to a default speed [seems like 48000 Hz]? 2. What else can I do here? I tried compiling and loading the nvaudio.o module for this nForce based sound card. And I got it to work too - with oss [kernel based] sound support - but probably did not configure it very well - the results were not any better. So in the end went to YaST. The mobo is Asus A7N266-VM with integrated sound. If anyone can give me any tips, it shall be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rohit ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com