I seem to have some weird stuff going on with the sound on my machine at the moment. I have 1 Soundblaster Live! installed in my machine. In an effort to get midi going, I have tried running alsaconf from the command line as suggested earlier on this list, I have also tried reconfiguring the card from Harddrake. The upshot of all this is that I now have three sound mixers. Two are labelled Creative SBLive and say - Invalid mixer "Creative SBLive" - when I bring them up in the GUI sound mixer. The third is labelled as TriTech (23) and sort of works, but the mixer is all confused and I have to control the volume to my front and rear speakers independently, I used to be able to control them both from the master volume when I had one Creative SBLive Mixer and no more. Can anyone help me get rid of these strange settings? BTW I just bought Mandrake 8 Powerpack today... Hey, maybe I could use some of my techsupport :-) Thanks in advance.