>From Gnome: ------------- The following audio device was detected. Vendor: Silicon Model: Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller Module: snd-intel8x0 from the terminal: ------------------- [thufir@localhost ~]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux [thufir@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.9-1.667 (bhcomp...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 [thufir@localhost ~]$ I'm looking at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/x320.html#AEN415>, but it seems to be about recompiling the kernel. since the test sound was working just last week, and I haven't done anything to the kernel, that doesn't seem to apply. Real Player 10 played a .wav file last week, I don't believe I installed any software since. thanks, Thufir