Greetings; I had working sound this morning, but have rebooted several times testing kernels today, but I'm currently back to the same FC6 kernel that had working sound this morning. But now I'm living with nothing but the fan noise. Here is the /etc/modprobe.conf: ----------------------- alias eth0 forcedeth alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-emu10k1 index=0 remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1 alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 options snd-card-1 index=1 options snd-intel8x0 index=1 remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0 alias snd-card-2 snd-mpu401 options snd-card-2 index=2 options snd-mpu401 index=2 remove snd-mpu401 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 2 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-mpu401 alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 alias char-major-81-* videodev ----------------- That was apparently auto generated by anaconda at install time, and it actually got it right, the nvidia is the motherboard audio. Now here is a 'cat /proc/asound/*' ----------------- cat: /proc/asound/Audigy2: Is a directory cat: /proc/asound/card0: Is a directory cat: /proc/asound/card1: Is a directory 0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at 0x9000, irq 217 1 [nForce2 ]: NFORCE - NVidia nForce2 NVidia nForce2 with ALC655 at 0xed001000, irq 185 2: : timer 3: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 4: [ 0- 1]: raw midi 5: [ 0- 0]: raw midi 6: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback 7: [ 0- 2]: digital audio playback 8: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture 9: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture 10: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 11: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 12: [ 0] : control 13: : sequencer 14: [ 0- 2]: hardware dependent 15: [ 0- 2]: raw midi 16: [ 0- 3]: raw midi 17: [ 1- 2]: digital audio playback 18: [ 1- 1]: digital audio capture 19: [ 1- 0]: digital audio playback 20: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture 21: [ 1] : control 00-00: EMU10K1 (FX8010) 00-02: Emux WaveTable 0 snd_emu10k1 1 snd_intel8x0 cat: /proc/asound/nForce2: Is a directory cat: /proc/asound/oss: Is a directory 00-03: emu10k1 : Multichannel Playback : playback 1 00-02: emu10k1 efx : Multichannel Capture/PT Playback : playback 8 : capture 1 00-01: emu10k1 mic : Mic Capture : capture 1 00-00: emu10k1 : ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback : playback 32 : capture 1 01-02: Intel ICH - IEC958 : NVidia nForce2 - IEC958 : playback 1 01-01: Intel ICH - MIC ADC : NVidia nForce2 - MIC ADC : capture 1 01-00: Intel ICH : NVidia nForce2 : playback 1 : capture 1 cat: /proc/asound/seq: Is a directory G0: system timer : 1000.000us (10000000 ticks) G1: RTC timer : 976.562us (100000000 ticks) C0-0: EMU10K1 timer : 20.833us (1024 ticks) P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE P0-0-2: PCM playback 0-0-2 : SLAVE P0-0-4: PCM playback 0-0-4 : SLAVE P0-0-6: PCM playback 0-0-6 : SLAVE P0-0-8: PCM playback 0-0-8 : SLAVE P0-0-10: PCM playback 0-0-10 : SLAVE P0-0-12: PCM playback 0-0-12 : SLAVE P0-0-14: PCM playback 0-0-14 : SLAVE P0-0-16: PCM playback 0-0-16 : SLAVE P0-0-18: PCM playback 0-0-18 : SLAVE P0-0-20: PCM playback 0-0-20 : SLAVE P0-0-22: PCM playback 0-0-22 : SLAVE P0-0-24: PCM playback 0-0-24 : SLAVE P0-0-26: PCM playback 0-0-26 : SLAVE P0-0-28: PCM playback 0-0-28 : SLAVE P0-0-30: PCM playback 0-0-30 : SLAVE P0-0-32: PCM playback 0-0-32 : SLAVE P0-0-34: PCM playback 0-0-34 : SLAVE P0-0-36: PCM playback 0-0-36 : SLAVE P0-0-38: PCM playback 0-0-38 : SLAVE P0-0-40: PCM playback 0-0-40 : SLAVE P0-0-42: PCM playback 0-0-42 : SLAVE P0-0-44: PCM playback 0-0-44 : SLAVE P0-0-46: PCM playback 0-0-46 : SLAVE P0-0-48: PCM playback 0-0-48 : SLAVE P0-0-50: PCM playback 0-0-50 : SLAVE P0-0-52: PCM playback 0-0-52 : SLAVE P0-0-54: PCM playback 0-0-54 : SLAVE P0-0-56: PCM playback 0-0-56 : SLAVE P0-0-58: PCM playback 0-0-58 : SLAVE P0-0-60: PCM playback 0-0-60 : SLAVE P0-0-62: PCM playback 0-0-62 : SLAVE P0-1-1: PCM capture 0-1-1 : SLAVE P0-2-0: PCM playback 0-2-0 : SLAVE P0-2-1: PCM capture 0-2-1 : SLAVE P0-2-2: PCM playback 0-2-2 : SLAVE P0-2-4: PCM playback 0-2-4 : SLAVE P0-2-6: PCM playback 0-2-6 : SLAVE P0-2-8: PCM playback 0-2-8 : SLAVE P0-2-10: PCM playback 0-2-10 : SLAVE P0-2-12: PCM playback 0-2-12 : SLAVE P0-2-14: PCM playback 0-2-14 : SLAVE P0-3-0: PCM playback 0-3-0 : SLAVE P1-0-0: PCM playback 1-0-0 : SLAVE P1-0-1: PCM capture 1-0-1 : SLAVE P1-1-1: PCM capture 1-1-1 : SLAVE P1-2-0: PCM playback 1-2-0 : SLAVE Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu Jun 22 13:55:50 2006 UTC). -------------------------- I have run alsamixer several times, and while I can get thumps in the speakers occasionally as I switch or mute some things, no sound comes out of the speaker when kscd is automaticly launched to play a regular cd. And the audio splash that kde plays near the end of the kde init screen time on screen is also silent. Nothing of note in the logs, nada, zip except for some selinux mewling about fetchmail and procmail, its back to permissive mode for obvious reasons. There is also some sort of a bug (I think) in udev, because if there is an audio cd in the drive when booted, the drive isn't accessable to anything after the bootup. /dev/cdrom apparently doesn't exist then. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.