Folks, I have asked several times and seems that sound cards are one of those questions no one wants to touch or solve... Had this sound problem since I installed FC2 on this machine. Gave up many times to tackle it later and come back to try and solve it. Seems like I am in a casual loop :-) My card is a YMF-724F - Yamaha DS-XG I am guessing that all along -- that FC2 had the old sound system installed and it was not until later that ALSA was added in -- so I think it is quite possible that I have two sound systems installed in my FC2 -- SO -- If this is true -- what was the original sound-system used and since I KNOW that I am using ALSA -- how can I get rid of it (the old sound system)? The current system cannot play MIDI, the KDE cannot play the two default sounds in the KDE Control Center (One is probably a wave file and the other IS MIDI) KDE cannot play system sounds -- it does NOT WORK When I brought up the Audicity Sound Editor -- I brought in the Classic Bell wave file and I notice that the bell plays well but just at the point where it should have stopped, there is a wobbling feedback sound that continues on for at least 11 seconds past the stop point -- this happens no matter WHAT wave file is played and I notice that the sound-levels for both channels are solid full (green) as if in a feedback loop. Also -- note that CD's played through GRIP works well -- no problems what-so-ever. The following is my /etc/modprobe.conf file (note: why is there a /etc/modules.conf file as well??? DO I need this?) # Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf! alias eth0 e100 alias scsi_hostadapter sym53c8xx alias usb-controller uhci-hcd # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-ymfpci # module options should go here # 330(D), 300, 332, 334 options snd-ymfpci index=0 mpu_port=0x330 # 388(D), 398, 3A0, 3A8 options snd-ymfpci index=0 fm_port=0x388 # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss install snd-ymfpci /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-ymfpci && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : remove snd-ymfpci { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ymfpci Any help is apprechiated! Dan