Hello All, Have just installed Suse 10.0 and updated and am having problems with the sound. Hardware is known to work in windows. Have an Asus A7V600-X mainboard with onboard sound reported by hwinfo as: 23: PCI 11.5: 0401 Multimedia audio controller [Created at pci.277] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1106_3059 Unique ID: Ssy1.wXN6pYJ5d_9 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.5 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:11.5 Hardware Class: sound Model: "ASUSTeK VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller" Vendor: pci 0x1106 "VIA Technologies, Inc." Device: pci 0x3059 "VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x810d Revision: 0x60 Driver: "VIA 82xx Audio" I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xe0ff (rw) IRQ: 5 (1409924 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00001106d00003059sv00001043sd0000810Dbc04sc01i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: via82cxxx_audio is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe via82cxxx_audio" Driver Info #1: Driver Status: snd_via82xx is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_via82xx" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Earlier in the hwinfo output it says; <7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64 <3>ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000] <3>ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000] <3>ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000] <3>ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000] <6>ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:11.5 disabled (Whole section repeated a number of times) This would seem to be the heart of the problem. If the interrupt is disabled then obviously the hardware cannot function correctly. But the interrupt is being disabled because "codec 0 is not valid"? How does one go about correcting this. I am a bit stumped. /var/log/messages also repeats much of the above quote and also goes on to say that; Jan 8 17:27:17 heimat kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:11.5 disabled Jan 8 17:27:17 heimat resmgr[4489]: set_facl() - ACL error on /dev/snd/controlC0, acl_set_file: No such file or directory Jan 8 17:27:17 heimat resmgr[4489]: set_facl() - ACL error on /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p, acl_set_file: No such file or directory Jan 8 17:27:17 heimat resmgr[4489]: set_facl() - ACL error on /dev/snd/pcmC0D1c, acl_set_file: No such file or directory Jan 8 17:27:17 heimat resmgr[4489]: set_facl() - ACL error on /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p, acl_set_file: No such file or directory Jan 8 17:27:17 heimat resmgr[4489]: set_facl() - ACL error on /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c, acl_set_file: No such file or directory Jan 8 17:27:17 heimat resmgr[4489]: set_facl() - ACL error on /dev/snd/timer, acl_set_file: No such file or directory But all the files and directories mentioned are present and correct, zero byte character devices with rw-rw- permissions and owned by root:audio. Does anyone have any ideas that may help? (buy a decent sound card?) Thanks in advance. Allister -- Public Key to be found at www.keyserver.net. Search for tag@ukfsn