I have just bought an Audigy Value card,the problems are:- 1/ What programme reads a Creative extention ".chm" 2/ Sound is nothing but static between the first 2 notes and the last 2 notes of any sound sequence. Any ideas on these. Part lsmod snd_ca0106 29797 0 snd_ac97_codec 88893 1 snd_ca0106 snd_seq_dummy 3781 0 snd_seq_oss 31937 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7105 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 49873 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 9165 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 51057 0 snd_mixer_oss 18113 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 87749 3 snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 25285 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 54949 9 snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9889 1 snd snd_ac97_bus 2497 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_page_alloc 10825 2 snd_ca0106,snd_pcm modprobe.conf alias eth0 tulip alias eth1 tulip # options snd-via82xx index=0 # remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx alias usb-controller ehci-hcd alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd alias net-pf-10 off install ipv6 /bin/true options loop max-loop=32 # I2C module options alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options snd cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106 options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-ca0106 index=0 remove snd-ca0106 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ca0106 Thanks david ~