On board sound card is a ADI AD1980 SoundMAX 6-channel CODEC S/PDIF out interface. Is detected as follows: [Output from dmesg:] Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:11.5 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:10.4 via82cxxx: Six channel audio available PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64 via82cxxx: timeout while reading AC97 codec (0xAA0000) ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS112 (Unknown) via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE000, IRQ 9 [Output from lsmod:] via82cxxx_audio 24056 1 (autoclean) ac97_codec 17064 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio] uart401 8356 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio] sound 73300 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio uart401] soundcore 6500 4 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio sound] [Output from cat /proc/pci:] Bus 0, device 17, function 5: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 96). IRQ 9. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff]. Sound Card detection tool identifies it as above, but the test sound cannot be heard. From command line, # play <some_wav>.wav also produces no sound, as well as no errors. System thinks everything is fine but I hear nothing, even when volume is turned up. Works fine when booted into WinXP. Zach