Special thanks to Mark Weaver and sSpoonman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])! Some history first. I have never gotten the sound to work on my son's HP Pavilion 3265. Both the installation procecure and sounddrake failed to detect the on-board audio. A few months ago I put my son's original Win98 HD back in ran the control panel system applet. Scribbled a few notes about the sound "card" and yanked it back out. Never did much after that - just got busy and then lost the paper with the info. Mark and I had a brief e-mail exchange relative to the "gates gets Linux" thread and sound on the Pavilion came up. He felt it might have been an interrupt conflict. I figured I would check it out, maybe after Christmas. But after coming home tonight and checking my mail there was entry in [newbie] from Spoonman with subject = "RE: [newbie] Crystal 4235." Bingo! The nickel dropped as I was pretty sure that had been the name of the sound chip in the Pavilion. So *made* the time to tear the system apart and put the WIn98 HD back in. Sure enough the sound system was "Crystal PnP Audio". Hmmmm not "4235" or some other number. But I took a flashlight and magnifying glass and checked out the chips. One was labeled "Cyrstal CX4237-X03". Close enough for me. This time I took down *all* the information in the WIn98 Control System applet through. Then yanked the WIn98 drive and put back the Mandrake 7.1 HD. Logged on as root and ran soundrake. It couldn't see anything bit I hit the OK button and it came up and gave me a list. Under Crystal there was 4232 and 4236. Hmmm, what the heck, 4236 is close enough to 4237. Selected that and got a dialog box. made changes to the DMA channel. Hit the test button - nada. Doh!! No speakers. Yanked an old pair of LabTec MCS-600s from the junk box and plugged them in. Hit the test button again - this time something muffled that sounded like speech. Cranked up the volume and tried again - it *was* speech albeit pretty muffled. Said "close enough" and hit the OK button. Put in a CD and am listening to the Bach Brandenbergs on a Synthesizer! Ahhh... life is good. This has been a long post but maybe it will help someone else since my technique certainly wasn't "deep." Cheers and thanks again Mark and Spoonman! -rick
