I missed most of this thread, however.. On Wednesday 03 Aug 2005 21:57, William Case wrote: > Additions and corrections to last post. > I googled. I don't have a Hammerfall sound card. > > > Dare I remove them using yum? > Nothing about Hammerfall appears in my yum repo or extras lists. > find produces: > /usr/bin/hdspmixer > /usr/share/applications/fedora-hdspmixer.desktop > /usr/share/pixmaps/hdspmixer.png > /usr/share/doc/alsa-tools-1.0.9/hdspmixer > /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/hdspmixer.debug > /usr/src/debug/alsa-tools-1.0.9/hdspmixer > /usr/src/debug/alsa-tools-1.0.9/hdspmixer/src/HDSPMixerInputs.cxx > etc. ... > /usr/src/debug/alsa-tools-1.0.9/hdspmixer/src/HDSPMixerCard.cxx > > Should I just rip them out? These are part of alsa-tools, these tools are only needed for special Sound-Cards or Chips, in your case you don't need them with an AudioPCI ENS1371, yum remove alsa-tools HTH Colin -- Fedora Core 4, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.13-rc5-ck2 KDE-Redhat-3.4.2-1.0.fc4.kde Registered Linux user number #342953