Hi all, First of all let me express my warm sympathy for everyone on this list who are doing so much for us all! Thanks a million! OK, now for the problems: Could anyone shed some light on this, I think I screwed up Configuration: SuSE 6.3, standard kernel, Pentium500, ES1371 sound, NE2000 PCI, I'd been trying to get sound to work. So I fiddled around with Alsa. Didn't work at first, then it did, than it didn't. For some reason (can't remember exactly) I assumed there was an IRQ conflict. I went ito the bios settings and had the PNP/PCI system reconfigure itself. I probably shouldn't have done that because after the reboot, SuSE didn't find the networkcard anymore. I finally got the networkcard back, by booting from CD2 and autoprobing modules (It found my networkcard on irq 5) and rebooting the installed system. . Again I fiddled around with Alsa and modules.conf. All of a sudden the soundcard was working! Yesss! But then I went into GNOME (btw I love the GNOME/Enlightenment comb) and forgot about another problem I (sometimes) have: After closing X, sometimes the (Samsung 17GLsi) monitor switches off and I can't get it back on without rebooting or restarting X, it mostly will not go back in textmode and when it does it seems to endlessly be "waiting for X server to shut down". This happens also with sax! Where should I look for this problem? Anyway, I rebooted and off course the networkcard could not be found. So I rebooted from CD, autoprobe, networkcard found, but now there is no more sound. I have the feeling that I shouldn't have to reboot all the time, but not being an expert, I have no idea where to look exactly. I checked /var/log/messages and in the failed bootsequence part I found a line that stated that the soundcard was found: kernel: es1371: found adapter at io 0xe000 irq 11 but some lines after that it says: kernel: ne.c: No PCI cards found. Use "io=0xNNN" for ISA cards.. The boot sequence after that (from CD2) doesn't mention the sound card at all, but as I said the network is back on line. Can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks! Jeroen Verstegen jeroen@jota.nl http://www.jota.nl -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq