I use the same kind of card. I think you copied the wrong entries in your email, from your lspci output you should be using the es1371 driver. In any case, I have modules.conf look like this: #alias char-major-14 off #alias sound off #alias midi off alias char-major-14 es1371 options es1371 joystick=0x200 run depmod afterwards and everything is ready to go. After the next boot if you run 'modprobe es1371' it should load all the necessary drivers (soundcore, sound, etc.), that is what depmod should setup. If they don't load then something is not working right, although I never had problems with that setup. This driver does not support .au files. That may be why your attempts to record using the /dev/audio device failed. /dev/audio is for .au files only, you should use /dev/dsp instead. I mostly play sounds, don't record much and I'm not familiar with your voice recognition software. You may need first to load the right drivers, set your software with the right devices and try again. You may want to try the ALSA drivers, a replacement to the above. Install the alsa package, comment all the above, remove the modules if loaded and run 'alsaconf'. It should detect your sound card and add the necessary entries to modules.conf. The package has a mixer controller, so you will have more control of the input/output levels, etc. By the way, the ALSA drivers from the SuSE CDs are for version 2.2.14 of the kernel. If you upgrade to 2.2.15 or 2.2.16 you will have to recompile the package from sources. -- Rafael Herrera Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo -- 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/Doku/FAQ/