system-config-soundcard detects my soundcard info correctly, but then "play test sound" produces no sound. all the alsa rpms are installed. lsmod turns up oss stuff though... [root@semaphore arts-1.2.92]# lsmod Module Size Used by [...snip...] snd_mixer_oss 13824 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_emu10k1 71172 1 snd_rawmidi 17184 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm 68872 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1 snd_timer 17156 1 snd_pcm snd_seq_device 6152 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 50436 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 7940 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 3200 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 6276 1 snd_emu10k1 snd 38372 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep soundcore 6112 2 snd no oss stuff is even installed... [root@semaphore arts-1.2.92]# rpm -qa | grep -i oss [root@semaphore arts-1.2.92]# thanks for the help!