> > My question at this point is: what the best way to clean out the > > apparently messed up alsa configuration files and/or trick FC3 into > > treating the system as if the built in sound card was never there? > 1. delete all soundcard related entries from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf > > 2. delete all sound related entries from /etc/modprobe.conf Thanks for the help. This was 2/3 of what I needed to do. In addition to the above steps, I found it was also necessary to delete /etc/asound.conf. This file is created by system-config-soundcard used to specify which one of multiple sound cards you wish to use by default but, if you only have one card, it's not needed. Thanks again, Jonathan