Hi Pithball, > $ cat .config | grep CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL Compiled as a module, I verified that when configuring the kernel. CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m > It may be that the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file is important for your card. > What does it read? It could probably be left alone unless it is causing > problems. Where is your alsaconf located? That /etc/modprobe.d/sound contained only two lines. (after running alsaconf:) [root@localhost etc]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel My modprobe.conf manual page says it first checks for /etc/modprobe.conf and if that not exists, it'll read all files in /etc/modprobe.d/ similar to yum's repositories that can nowadays be spread over several files in /etc/yum.d/ I guess. I think the manual page is not 100% accurate, because I assume it'll check /etc/modprobe.d anyways, whether or not /etc/modprobe.conf exists. (it even tries to load my hda_intel module twice when I have it both in /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/sound) [root@localhost etc]# which alsaconf /usr/sbin/alsaconf [root@localhost etc]# ls -lsh /usr/sbin/alsaconf 40K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35K Jul 25 20:37 /usr/sbin/alsaconf ( alsaconf was compiled by myself ) JeeBee.