Hey all, in addition to the video card wuestion I fired off, after browsing through the parts at my disposal I noticed I have an Aureal Vrotex 2 superquad card (au8830) that isn't doing anything... Now I know that Aureal originally only released a set of beta drivers, but I was wondering if anyone has picked up what they left off... This was a great soundcard, and I wouldn't mind being able to use it again if it'll work under Linux. I'll only be using it for the occasional session of mpg123 :) The alternative is a tried and proven ES1371 based videocard that I've currently got running in this machine. Anyways, if someone could get back to me on that one I'd appreciate it as well. I think that's about it for now, so far the system is going to appear somewhat like this; AMD Duron 600 Gigabyte GA-7ZX-1 motherboard 512 MB SDRAM Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter 3 x 4.3GB UW SCSI hard drives 1 x Narrow SCSI CD-ROM drive 1 x 20GB IDE drive (purely for raw storage) Intel Pro 10/100 NIC Sound and video to be determined by the responses I get from your emails If you have any thoughts or suggestions please let me know... Cheers Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 10 days 6 hours 23 minutes.