Hi: I have a Soundblaster 16. The Yast2 thingy seems to set it up fine. I can use aplay to play the test.wav file. But, kmix shows nothing, and sometimes hangs for a long time and never appears when I start it. Realplayer says "cannot open audio device." So things are not well. I don't know if this is a KDE problem or the basic sound driver/device setup. I have tried using the modules.conf setup produced by yast2 and also the example one in the modules.conf file. Both produce the same result. My /dev/audio device had user ownership and o=rw permissoins, so I changed it to look more like they did in Suse 7.1. Actually, Suse 7.1 didn't work either, until I compiled ALSA myself. But the problems were differnent from 7.3. Does anyone know how to fix it? My devices look like: ~ # ll /dev/audio* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 11 Nov 19 18:44 /dev/audio -> /dev/audio0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 4 Sep 23 18:54 /dev/audio0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 20 Sep 23 18:54 /dev/audio1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 36 Sep 23 18:54 /dev/audio2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 52 Sep 23 18:54 /dev/audio3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 7 Sep 23 18:54 /dev/audioctl My modules.conf currently looks like: #***************************************************************************** # If you want to use the kernel sound drivers instead of ALSA (SuSE's default # sound solution) please put comment signs in front of the following # entries and remove any previous ALSA configuration from YaST2 or alsaconf # from the end of this file. Then choose one of the sample configurations # below. Uncomment all lines starting with 'alias', 'options', pre- or post- # install' within one configuration and modify the parameters according to # your needs (e.g. the resources chosen for this device in /etc/isapnp.conf). #***************************************************************************** alias char-major-14 off alias sound off alias midi off #***************************************************************************** # Example configs for ALSA # You don't need to run isapnp with ALSA, it has full PnP support. # See /usr/share/doc/packages/alsa/README.SuSE #***************************************************************************** # # ALSA native device support and OSS emulation support. Uncomment these # lines to enable ALSA: # alias char-major-14 soundcore alias char-major-116 snd alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss # # Uncomment this line too, you can setup your ALSA device permissions here: # options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0666 snd_device_gid=17 snd_device_uid=0 # # ALSA Card examples: # # Creative SB16 PnP (ALSA will do isapnp itself per default): # alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sb16 options snd-card-sb16 snd_index=0 -- _____________________ Christopher R. Carlen crobc@earthlink.net Suse 7.3 Linux 2.4.10