The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.epox as well. Regarding sound on debian, indeed, I followed Colin Keefe's advice http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030107020013$64eb%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=6 with initial success after reboot (using "snd-via8233" instead of "snd-via82xx") with stock kernel 2.4.18-k7 ! -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780