Glyn Millington said: > > Woody system with XFree 4.2.1 > Sound card Soundblaster 128 look at the kernel log(usually 'dmesg' will do), does the kernel detect the soundcard? on my 2.2.19 system I get: es1370: version v0.35 time 21:16:21 Aug 16 2002 es1370: found adapter at io 0xe400 irq 15 es1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0 nate