Hi; I had similar problems in FC4. Still haven't got everything fixed, but the following maybe helpful. Although a file called alsaconf still exists it is not used. Instead asound.conf and asound.state in /etc are used. asound.conf can only be set by using system-config-soundcard. Any manual changes I make are changed back at login. The alsa site http://www.alsa-project.org/ has links for debian distrubutions and specific sound cards/patches or fixes. On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 15:09 -0400, Michael W. Bazdell wrote: > I can get my card to work fine after running alsaconf, and then I do > alsactl store, but everytime I reboot, I have to run alsaconf again. I'm > running Debian Etch with a standard SBLive card. It's very odd. Regards Bill