Hi, I'm currently running SuSE 8.2 on a HP Pavilion 734n. I've tried to use the sound card (a Via Avance '97) under both 8.1 & 8.2 with the same results. YaST detects and configures my sound card, however whenever I try to play any sound (like the test sound under the sound card config) the system will play about the first second of the sound and then loop for about a minute. I tried loading Mandrake on the system and the sound worked properly. However the modules.conf file specifid the device as snd-via82cxxx_audio instead of the snd-via8233 which SuSE specifies. There is no snd-via82cxxx_audio driver in /lib/moduels (there is a via82cxxx_audio driver though). I am rather new at dealing with modules etc... any advice would be appreciated. I've included the (hopefully) relevant portions of my modules.conf and output from 'lsmod'. One last thing is that I do not appear to have a /dev/pcm enty -- I thought that this was needed. If it is how do I go about creating it? ---- modules.conf ---- ptions snd-via8233 snd_ac97_clock=48000 snd_enable=1 snd_index=0 options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116 # YaST2: sound system dependent part # alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-slot-1 off alias sound-service-1-0 off alias sound-slot-2 off alias sound-service-2-0 off alias sound-slot-3 off alias sound-service-3-0 off # Ssy1.fF2s1Ubrnu4:VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233 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-0-11 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ---- lmod output ---- Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-via8233 14916 0 snd-pcm 71168 0 [snd-via8233] snd-timer 13376 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 35696 0 [snd-via8233] snd-mpu401-uart 3840 0 [snd-via8233] snd-rawmidi 15584 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4512 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd 40900 0 [snd-via8233 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] -- Mike Roth O O Cherniak Software ---oOo-( )-oOo---