<posted & mailed> Thornton wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 04:23, Richard Whitney wrote: >> I had to update alsa to the latest drivers - I have onboard AC97 > > I had the latest drivers already. > > i went ahead and reinstalled alsa now but still nothing try turning the volume up? that one gets me everytime. also, you don't want to be using snd-intel8x0. i find the sound quality very bad with that driver. go to nvidia.com, download the nforce2 drivers for linux. shutdown X, run the installer (don't forget to chmod 755 on it first). open /etc/modprobe.conf, edit the line: alias eth0 forcedeth to: alias eth0 nvnet edit the line: alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 to alias snd-card-0 nvsound reboot your computer. your volumes will all be set to zero. i usually startx and use kmix to turn up the volumes. hope that helps.