OK, I'm running out of ideas. I've been trying to figure out why I get choppy sound in some multimedia (but not all) when I play via my SoundBlaster Live24. (OS = fully updated SuSE9.3) I have and onboard AC/97 sound card. Sound from all media plays fine if I use the onboard sound card (using any media player... MPlayer, Realplayer etc.) If I switch over to my SB Live24 sound plays fine from some media, and others it's so choppy you can't listen to it. I have done a lot of Googling to try and find a solution... based on what I found it seems that it could be related to ACPI... so here's a few things I did to try and clear it up.... - with ACPI on, if I do a rcpowersaved stop, I get about a 75% improvement in sound quality (less choppy sound but still bad enough you can't use it). - with ACPI=off on boot, I still get the same choppy sound as with it on. Doing an rcpowersaved stop has a marginal effect, but nowhere near as much as when ACPI is on. Seems kind of odd to me, but that's what happens. - I've removed ACPI related packages, but that had no effect on the choppy sound. Through all of this, my onboard AC/97 works the same... it works with no choppy sound. I don't want to use my AC/97 as my main sound - I'd like to reserve that for my VoIP. I really woudl like to solve this, but am out of ideas for what could be the root cause of my choppy sound issue. Anyone have any ideas at all here? Anything I could try? C