I have the above soundcard as part of the motherboard. All is configured and works - sort of. Running Mandrake 8.0. First off, KMix thinks that the card is a Cirrus Logic CS4299 Rev D ? More importantly though, a CD will play fine for a while, but then after some random time (30sec-2 hours) there will be a pop and the sound stops. A ctl-G or some system beep, e.g. when I get mail, will start it up again. I don't understand. There is no similar problem when I run W2K on this machine. Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin