Well first of all, just because you have that chip on the board doesn't mean thats how it should register driver wise. I have seen the two be totally different before. Find out from the mobo manufacturer what the int snd crd should register as under windows, then find the correlating linux driver. -Patrick David Rush wrote: Hi. I've been running RH 6.2 for quite a while on my 450 MHz P-III with 64 MB, but I've never had sound working acceptably. I've got an Intel i810-based all-in-one motherboard. (Minor update: picked up 256 MB of RAM at lunch today for $32 at MicroCenter - woo-hoo!) Sound works fine when I boot the evil W98. dmesg says: cm: version v1.1 time 21:09:15 Mar 7 2000 cm: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xcc00 irq 3 I searched my motherboard with a flashlight and did, indeed, find a chip with "CM8738" printed on it, so I believe the detection is accurate. When I run sndconfig, it detects a CM8738, but when it plays the test file, it comes out very distorted. I can tell that there's a voice in the test file, but I can't quite understand most of what it's saying. When I do cat /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav >/dev/dsp I get garbage out of my speakers that really annoys my wife. When I play with aumix, either "Vol" or "Pcm" can be used to make the garbage quieter or louder, but it's still garbage. I've even done the work to install the ALSA sound drivers (latest "stable" version as of last weekend), and I get the similar results. Any ideas? David --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. Yahoo! by Phone.