OK here is what I tried to make my sound card to work. 1. Fedora detects my soundcard as i810 2. in the sound play test there is nothing 3. I tried to install alsa. compiled it. and when i tried alsaconf to set it up for me it failed to load alsa service i think. it somehow could not load the sound modules. 4. then I thought of installing OSS the commertial one to see if it works there. As again it said some snd some crap not compiled in the kernel. I have an asus p4p800-vm main board with onboard sound card. I am troubled. As this pc is new and i havew all my movies and mp3s oggs in my local hard drive which is under reiserfs. I need to play them can anyone help ===== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works." -linus torvalds __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree