I have a VIA ac'97 chipset on my motherboard (soltek 67kv+) and I had alsa manually installed on 7.1 and sound worked fine. Since 7.2beta/cooker the sound only works with the arts sound server off, and not all saved sounds in the kde settings work when they're supposed to. If I turn on the arts sound server the sound comes out all choppy. I'm still using 2.2.16-9mdk until you make a final choice on 2.2.17, so I don't have the new version of alsa - is it just this or a problem with the arts sound server and alsa on via ac 97? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.