can you do this? lsmod | grep als4000 and, if I say something n00by, sorry, I'm a 4-day linux n00b np, we've all been there :) shows this http://pastebin.ca/9371 Thanks ;) you could just paste it here that's why I took it in a msg alright, just don't feel like spamming any part of Freenode. last time I did it, caused lagg x_ x anyways... heh okay well you have the sound driver for your card in. hmm... but the sound doesn't seem to work. sooo... what are you using to play with? Kaboodle something like that. should I try to play it from the command line? To see if that gives me any luck? hmm are you running KDE? yeah. ps aux | grep esd ps aux | grep arts the first command... caused a crash. the second one... edward 4226 0.0 2.5 10848 6424 ? S 20:18 0:02 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f root 4485 0.0 0.1 1536 484 pts/0 S+ 20:59 0:00 grep arts it didn't crash just didn't output anything brb, stealing keys from my orphanage :) toresbe: It made the crash handler thing open. toresbe: alright :P