-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Donald D Henson Donald, It appears that I toppost due to the way your messages are seen when I reply. They only give the header. Top-posting is not the correct way to answer. At any rate, My kernel is: Linux 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I installed from a fresh installation as well. I did not upgrade. You can try one of these. 1. If you did not do a fresh install, go to Yast->Hardware->sound and remove the sound card, exit and then reinstall the card via Yast (see Rajko's reply for the howto. 2. Do a fresh install and see if that helps. 3. Reboot, but when it asks for boot options type (without the quotation marks) "acpi=off" and see if that helps, could be some irq issues. Intel sound cards have always been my nemesis. My soundcard did not work in 10.3. BTW, I am not an expert by any means, I am just a hobbyist user. HTH. --Keith