once upon a time ville wrote thanks a lot the rpms seem to be fine they worked for me out of the box on vanilla valhalla w latest errata except that i don t see an init script in the rpms a sample one designed for rh is supposed to be in utils alsasound could you take a look if it can be included it doesn t need to as red hat linux already sets correct permissions on all alsa audio devices for locally logged in users through the console perms file and the modules conf files takes care of loading the right modules on demand also aumix and the scripts that come with red hat linux still work for controlling the volume so it s still saved and restored when the computer is halted even using alsa i m glad you got your card working with these i m now wondering if i won t maybe buy an amplifier that supports dolby digial decoding my current one only does pro logic since i ve read that alsa supports the s pdif optical output of the sound chip of my shuttle URL from what i can tell after only NUMBER days using it alsa rocks especially since having a full oss compatibility results that it breaks nothing at all matthias matthias saou world trade center edificio norte NUMBER planta system and network engineer NUMBER barcelona spain electronic group interactive phone NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list freshrpms net URL 