Oops! In my previous message I forgot to copy this part of the reslts from lspci: 0000:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07 ) Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! Player 5.1 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at a400 [size=32] Capabilities: <available only to root> I also note that running lspci as a user and not as root as added that last line saying that it is only available to root. Is there permissions set somewhere for pci devices? Normand