Ian asked "Which sound card have you got? Have you modprobe'd the supporting module or compiled support for it into your kernel?"
I haven't (I mean never) compiled a kernel, I have some redhat documention on how to do it,will it be the same under Debian? I have an AC97 intergrated sound card run by a VIA chipset (VT8233A I Believe) The device is listed under lspci as 00:07.5 Multimedia Audio Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller(rev 5). Here are the modprobe commands I tried foo:~# modprobe -l -t misc sound* foo:~# modprobe -a modprobe: Nothing to load ??? Specify at least a module or a wildcard like \* foo:~# modprobe sound* modprobe: Can't locate module sound* foo:~# Regards Mick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug