hi all...need some newbie help if anyone is keen to help out. i have an asus a7n8x board with the nforce2 chipset. fedora core does a great job of detecting everything about it and makes most of the onboard stuff work by default with no extra config needed. i have a slight problem with the audio, and hope for guidance in troubleshooting. it just seem to die after an undefined time. i can sit here and stream music thru xmms for hours, walk away for a while, and no sound will work when i get back...not even system sounds for gnome. everything works great when i reboot. there are no 'bad' entries in syslog showing anything dying... this is what modules shows: [ryan@dakota ryan]$ cat /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 3c59x alias usb-controller usb-ohci alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : what else can/should i be looking for in order to get to the root of the problem? is there a way to 'reinitialize' a driver without having to reload? i'm a bit of a linux nub, and haven't seen any threads via googling for similar topics... cheers, and thanks for any help! -ryan