I agree with Paul about Knoppix. I ran it on my compaq presario laptop and was able to hear musical sound out of the speakers for the first time since I reformatted my hard drive. It was nice to verify that my sound system still works and it is just a driver thing. I'm considering becoming a penguin follower with it : ) Anyway, thanks for letting me know about it Dennis (I think it was). C-ya later, Cliff