I have an ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard with the VIA 8233/8235 chipset. sound was working perfectly in 9.0 I did a clean install of 9.1. The install detects the via 82xx properly and seems to configure it fine. There are no error messages. Previously when sound mysteriously disappeared under 9.0, I would run alsaconf as root and that would fix it. Now when I run alsaconf as root, everything goes fine as before, no error messages, but still no sound. I have used kmix and kamix to adjust volume levels. When in doubt I turned everything on. XMMS plays music tracks fine. No errors. Just no sound. etc/modprobe.d/sound contains two lines alias snd-card-0 snd_via82xx alias sound-slot-0 snd_via82xx I checked the alsa project website. One mail there said that someone who got no sound with the 2.6.4 kernel fixed his problem by adding the option ac97_quirk=0 to the snd_82xx module. He didn't mention what distro he was using, so I don't know if it was Linux. Since ALSA is now in the kernel (as I understand it), I suppose this would mean compiling a kernel with that option included (assuming it isn't already included) Relevant output from lspci is as follows: 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Any ideas on how to get sound would be appreciated Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502