Hi, I installed Mandrake 7.2 very easily, with no significant trouble. the HardDrake utility made almost all the work with my devices, included the sound card, but when I play any sound file, it sound with too much noise, like an old radio station, so I tried to customise the configuration, but HardDrake doesn't let me put the right numbers. I even tried to use 'sndconfig' but it says that my sound card is not supported. My PC: Pentium III 128 Mb RAM HDD 20Gb /proc/pci Bus 0, device 31, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82810AA LPC bridge (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 31, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82810AA IDE (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 212638 XT-PIC timer 1: 5771 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 1420 XT-PIC Intel ICH 11: 8303 XT-PIC eth0, usb-uhci 12: 99419 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 40647 XT-PIC ide0 /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 14 sound 29 fb 36 netlink 116 alsa 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw 180 usb /proc/modules snd-card-intel8x0 2256 0 snd-intel8x0 5936 0 [snd-card-intel8x0] snd-ac97-codec 24032 0 [snd-intel8x0] autofs 9456 2 (autoclean) usb-uhci 19184 0 (unused) usbcore 43632 1 [usb-uhci] 8139too 12064 1 (autoclean) snd-pcm-oss 16848 0 snd-pcm-plugin 13040 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4288 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-pcm 29792 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin] snd-timer 8192 0 [snd-pcm] snd-mixer 23536 0 [snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer-oss] snd 37008 1 [snd-card-intel8x0 snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer] soundcore 2800 2 [snd] nls_cp437 3952 2 (autoclean) vfat 9408 1 (autoclean) fat 30432 1 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 14224 2 (autoclean) /proc/ioports 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) c000-c0ff : eth0 d000-d013 : usb-uhci d800-d8ff : Intel ICH - AC'97 dc00-dc3f : Intel ICH - Controller f000-f007 : ide0 f008-f00f : ide1 Thanks for any help! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xavier Alfeiran Sainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (99) 9468925