hi, i'm new to the group and have been monitoring discussions for a couple of days. looks like this might be the place to solve one of my problems. I'm having soundcard problesm with my laptop i've gotten a lot of advice including recompilling the kernal, but man that just seems like the hard way i found a sound card driver for redhat, so i dual booted red hat on my laptop with everything else i have on here. so i'm wondering if i could get some help installing this driver. mike h "There are two main products that come out of Berkely: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -Jeremy S. Anderson "Linux for Servers. Macintosh for graphics. Palm for portability. and Windoze for Solitaire My Site [ http://www.solodiver.net ] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!