On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Jim Pharis wrote: Quick question, in your /etc/conf.modules file, do you have anything relating to sound in general? For example, around line 50 you will see the following lines # alias char-major-14 off # alias sound off # alias midi off best bet is to make sure their commented out, then for my SB-Live card, I added the following, directly after the section for the sb.o module (line 160 or so) <snip> #***************************************************************************** # module : emu10k1.o Creative EMU10K1 drivers # Also needed for SB Live # # Documentation available in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/emu10k1.c (search # for MODULE_PARM) and in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/emu10k1 . This # chip is often used together with other sound hardware. # # Possible configuration : alias char-major-14 emu10k1 # Uncomment the following if kernel is compiled with version info # pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore # post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore </snip> Sound works everytime on every boot. Anyway, that's my setup, maybe it'll help you with yours. jp> It happened. I finaly squeezed sound out of my Linux jp> box. I used the emu10k1 driver that came with SuSE jp> 6.3. jp> jp> I have the routine on how to get the card to work down jp> pretty good. All I have to do jp> jp> boot the machine. jp> jp> Then I have to move the soundcore.o file out of /misc jp> temporaily. Otherwise I get a modprobe error that jp> soundcore.o already exists jp> jp> So I have to move it out of /misc and jp> jp> Then depmod -a jp> jp> but dont't modprobe to soon cause if you do it will jp> now say that it can't find soundcore.o jp> jp> So then I have to place the soundcore.o back into its jp> /misc jp> jp> Then modprobe loads the soundcore. jp> jp> That shouldnt be to hard every time I want to use jp> sound. jp> jp> Creative needs to work on their Linux support a little jp> better. It would have been alot easier (like 10 times jp> easier) if my card simply came with Linux drivers in jp> the box and a short and sweet How-To jp> jp> jp> jp> __________________________________________________ jp> Do You Yahoo!? jp> Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. jp> http://invites.yahoo.com/ jp> jp> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.4+ - Kernel 2.2.16 "To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." -- Woody Allen -- 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/faq