First off thanks Steve for the help. Now, here's what's going on. I was had just installed Mandrake 5.3 . I realized that a few thing supported in the new Kernel might be enough of a reason for me to check into it. So , I did. After updating the kernel to 2.2.3-1. I followed the instructions on the Mandrake page re-booted at which time none of the modules loaded. Then I went to the next step. cd /lib/modules rm preferred ln -s 2.2.3-1 preferred cd /lib/modules/preferred cp /lib/modules/2.0.26-3/modules.dep modules.dep I re-booted ( this is starting to get like some other os) Here is what I got rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies succeeded modprobe: /lib/modules/preferred/misc/opl3sa2.o: modprobe: too many values for dma (max 1) modprobe: modprobe: sound: Device or resource busy rc.sysinit: Loading sound module failed rc.sysinit: Loading midi module succeeded So I took a looked at the config.modules file (At the advice of Steve) He was right this is what I found. alias sound opl3sa2 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0,1 mpu_io=0x330 I changed the dma to several things and tried to re-boot some were ( dma=0 dma16=1 , dma1=0 dma2=1 , dma=0 , dma=1, dma=0 dma=1 ) All with pretty much the same effect. I still get the same error and no sound. I know this is the correct card cause it worked fine before the update . ANY help will be GREATLY appreciaced. Thanks Steven G
