I have been having problems with sound since installing 8.2, and would be really grateful for any help sorting it out. It all worked fine with 8.1, but since upgrading there's been nothing. My soundcard is a VT8233 AC97, and according to everywhere I've looked, it is recognised, configured as snd-card-0, running and all the rest - but no sound comes out of any of the audio programs, though they all think they are playing away quite happily. I've carefully studied Jim and Charlie's recent exchange but as a newbie I couldn't see anything which seemed relevant to my problem, likewise the Sound HOWTO. I've tried alsaconf etc and it claims to configure but, as said, no sound arrives. The latest stuff in /etc/modules.conf generated by alsaconf was # # Ssy1.wGwp93ydet3:VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 0.9.0 --- alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss 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-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0666 options snd-via8233 snd_index=0 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- Can anyone please give me any help about what to do next? TIA -- Tony Price tony@godspell.fsnet.co.uk