Can ya'll tell me what command (and setup <conf> file initiates the following:) The part i am questioning is the sb and YM lines.... it says dsp busy ..but gives no error on the OPL-3 driver... what does this mean? (AT LEAST my ne2000 card is now activated again!!) This is from dmesg: Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pci_init: no BIOS32 detected Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 24.93 BogoMIPS Memory: 34852k/36864k available (736k kernel code, 384k reserved, 892k data) This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good. Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Linux version 2.0.32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Thu Apr 16 11:25:50 EDT 1998 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. Real Time Clock Driver v1.07 Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size hda: WDC AC2170F, 162MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=1010/6/55 hdb: SANYO CRD-256PA, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 2112k swap-space (priority -1) Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: dsp reset failed. YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035 IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035 loading device 'eth0'... ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 c0 df 82 7f b9 eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 11. loading device 'eth1'... CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. PPP line discipline registered. registered device ppp0 I am trying to use isapnptools to enable my opti soundcard (magicsound by iomagic) so i can then use it to play sounds... any ideas? Jann Jann Linder Web Developer/CH2M Hill - SFO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.jann.com/ CalendarPlus Web Site: http://www.calendarplus.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors. -- Dave Barry, "Urine Trouble, Mister" -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.