Hello ! I am sending this again because it seems to be that anybody WANTS to help me with this issue. I have just downloaded and installed the 2.4.18 kernel form mantel's download area. It is working fine but I got some problems with my multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10). In fact it was detected by yast2 but it sad something about cold not load (modprobe) the module ... The problem is that if I am going to manualy modprobe cmpci module ... everithing is fine. So I remmoved everything regarding yast2 and sound in /etc/modules.conf and put a line as: alias char-major-14 cmpci, depmod -a and reboot ... After reboot lsmod doesn't say nothing about cmpci module. What did I do wrong ??? If I manualy load cmpci module before entering kde2 ... everything is fine and I can hear the beautifull sound of arts server. Now ... I found e resolution to this pb. by making a startup script located in init.d ... just simply modrobe cmpci module. The real pb. is that I want alsa to do that for me. This pb. is important to me simply for the fact that I want to by SuSE Pro 8.0 and I want to be sure that I am not gonna have problems !!! Thanks.