first THANKS to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] for responding to my question Since 2 of them suggested "modprobe wd", I tried that first with aparently good results. Luckily I did not break out the champane! I then shutdown and installed my sound card and it worked!! boy was I excited. Unfortunately I needed to shutdown again for other reasons. When I restarted I got this as part of my dmesg: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 3.01 detected OK (220) ESS chip ES1868 detected YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 wd.c: No wd80x3 card found (i/o = 0x12c). CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California ISDN subsystem Rev: 1.93/1.80/1.95/1.60/1.17/1.3 loaded HiSax: Linux Driver for passive ISDN cards HiSax: Version 3.3c (module) HiSax: Layer1 Revision 2.36 HiSax: Layer2 Revision 2.20 HiSax: TeiMgr Revision 2.13 HiSax: Layer3 Revision 2.10 HiSax: LinkLayer Revision 2.40 HiSax: Approval certification valid HiSax: Approved with ELSA Quickstep series cards HiSax: Approval registration numbers: HiSax: German D133361J CETECOM ICT Services GmbH HiSax: EU (D133362J) CETECOM ICT Services GmbH HiSax: Approved with Eicon Technology Diva 2.01 PCI cards HiSax: Total 1 card defined HiSax: Card 1 Protocol EDSS1 Id=Teles1 (0) HiSax: Teles IO driver Rev. 2.14 Teles: 16.3 Byte at d80 is ff HiSax: Card Teles 16.3 not installed ! ISDN-subsystem unloaded VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) wd.c: No wd80x3 card found (i/o = 0x12c). Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 3.01 detected OK (240) ESS chip ES1868 detected YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 OPL3 not detected ff Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 3.01 detected OK (240) ESS chip ES1868 detected YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 OPL3 not detected ff running "modprobe ed" gives: /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net/wd.o: init_module: Device or resource busy when I run "sndconfig" I can play the first sample but the midi sample gives me: Device or resource busy Boy am I bummed, if I had opened thebooze I'd be crying in it. Jim
