I have asked this before and still can't get the problem fixed so here we go again. System specs: AMD Athlon 1.4 512 meg PC2100 DDR RAM Nividia Geforce Ti200 agp video card Realtek NIC card WinTV tv card SB Live 5.1 sound card Running Debian Sid with alsa 0.9.0beta10 compiled from sources alsamixer volumes are all at 100% and unmuted ran snddevices script in alsa-driver dir nothing in modules.conf as of now kernel 2.4.16 with sound compiled as module here is what lsmod shows after first booting: # lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: PF NVdriver 718976 49 (autoclean) parport_pc 21672 1 (autoclean) lp 6176 0 (autoclean) parport 25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] soundcore 3588 0 (autoclean) pwcx 87616 0 pwc 36636 0 [pwcx] uhci 24936 0 (unused) then when I do modprobe snd-card-emu10k1 I get this: # lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: PF snd-card-emu10k1 1984 0 (unused) snd-emu10k1 55776 0 [snd-card-emu10k1] snd-pcm 59648 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 12608 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 25088 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-hwdep 4736 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-rawmidi 14688 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-util-mem 1584 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-seq-device 4336 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd 33096 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-hwdep snd-rawmidi snd-util-mem snd-seq-device] NVdriver 718976 49 (autoclean) parport_pc 21672 1 (autoclean) lp 6176 0 (autoclean) parport 25440 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] soundcore 3588 2 (autoclean) [snd] pwcx 87616 0 pwc 36636 0 [pwcx] uhci 24936 0 (unused) but I can get no sound. I try aplay /some/wav/file and it acts like it is playing bu no sound I am using only the digital out jack connected to a Cambridge Soundworks DTT3500 system. When I start X I start to get errors like these in /var/log/damon.log: Dec 10 00:28:34 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:34 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:34 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:34 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:34 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:35 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:36 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:36 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:36 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:36 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:28:42 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:28:42 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:31:09 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:31:09 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Dec 10 00:31:22 bigdaddy gnome-name-server[16004]: server_is_alive: cnx[IDL:GNOME/Terminal/TerminalFactory:1.0] = 0x8056220 Dec 10 00:31:41 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:31:41 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Dec 10 00:32:04 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:32:04 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Dec 10 00:33:10 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:33:10 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Dec 10 00:33:27 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:33:27 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:33:32 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:33:32 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Dec 10 00:33:49 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1 Dec 10 00:33:49 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2 Dec 10 00:33:49 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3 Dec 10 00:33:49 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1 Dec 10 00:33:49 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1 Dec 10 00:33:49 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2 Dec 10 00:33:49 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2 Dec 10 00:33:49 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3 Dec 10 00:33:49 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3 Dec 10 00:34:39 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:34:39 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Dec 10 00:34:53 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:34:53 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:35:11 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:35:11 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Dec 10 00:36:54 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:36:54 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Dec 10 00:37:47 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:37:47 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Dec 10 00:38:18 bigdaddy gnome-name-server[16087]: server_is_alive: cnx[IDL:GNOME/control_center:1.0] = (nil) Dec 10 00:38:20 bigdaddy gnome-name-server[16090]: server_is_alive: cnx[IDL:GNOME/control_center:1.0] = 0x8056308 Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1 Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy last message repeated 7 times Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2 Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy last message repeated 7 times Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3 Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy last message repeated 7 times Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-4 Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy last message repeated 7 times Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-5 Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy last message repeated 7 times Dec 10 00:39:52 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-6 Dec 10 00:39:53 bigdaddy last message repeated 7 times Dec 10 00:39:53 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-7 Dec 10 00:39:53 bigdaddy last message repeated 7 times Dec 10 00:40:04 bigdaddy gnome-name-server[16159]: server_is_alive: cnx[IDL:GNOME/control_center:1.0] = 0x8056308 Dec 10 00:40:26 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:40:26 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-6 Dec 10 00:40:26 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 10 00:40:26 bigdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-6 I have gkrellm running with xmms and the volume plugin but the volume plugin dosen't start but I can type gamix in a termenial window and get it to come up. If I try to play a mp3 with xmms it also acts like it is playing but no sound. At startup there are to scripts being ran /etc/init.d/aumix (which I think debian installed) and /etc/init.d/alsasound (which alsa installed) Does anyone else have a similar set-up that would be able to give me some pointers as to have I can get this working. I hae read as much docs as I can find but no luck. Thanks for any help and sorry this is so long. Brad