Hi, I am trying to get sound working on a SuSE 9.1 box, the motherboard has the dreaded via82xx chipset - so I'm not surprised that I'm having difficulties :( So far I have tried installing precompiled ALSA RPMs from packman, and when that made no difference, I tried downloading and compiling the latest ALSA code. Still no joy. This is the error message I see when I have configured the soundcard through yast and then tried to start alsa manually: /etc/init.d # ./alsasound start Starting sound driver: via82xx done Restoring the previous sound setting failed However, if I then type: /etc/init.d # ./alsasound stop Shutting down sound driver/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found... Does this indicate that the module is not being loaded (despite it saying "done")? If I then go into yast2->hardware->sound, I see that a device has already been configured (called "Sound card", configured as sound-card-0). However, if I click the button to change the settings for that card I get an error: "The number of running cards does not match the number of cards configured in your configuration files, do you want me to restart the soundsystem?" If I let yast do this, I can then go to the volume setting page, and play the test sample (which sounds fine, no rice crispies "snap, crackle or pop") The problem is that when I restart the machine, I get the same problem when the loader runs alsasound start, and consequently no sound in Linux. I have tried playing around with alsamixer, and set all the volumes to max (for the things that should be on). I guess the only other relevant info is the contents of /etc/modprobe.d/sound: options snd-via82xx ac97_quirk=-1 dxs_support=4 enable=1 index=0 joystick=0 # uniq.virtual:Sound card alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 The other really strange thing is that I have no dsp, mixer, sequencer of midi devlinks in /dev!! I am really stuck here, please can you help?? Cheers, Jon.