Well, I thought I had my Red Hat 8.0 all set. Then I tried to play music with XMMS. It reports that it "Couldn't open audio." As in past installations of Red Hat, I had to use sndconfig to manually set the parameters for my card. I selected the settings I had chosen previously. The sample sound played just fine with Linus telling me how to pronounce "Linux" But, audio applications claim that the audio cannot be opened. Any thoughts? here is my modules.conf file: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias eth0 tulip alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 sb post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330 I don't have a copy of my old modules.conf file from RH 7.3. I don't remember the "post-install..." and "pre-remove..." lines and have no idea, at this moment, what they do. Also, I used to have to change my eth0 driver to de4x5 from the current tulip because tulip didn't work in previous versions. Maybe the tulip driver is interfering with the sound? That feels like a reach though. Alan