Right, I've got admin rights back but haven't got any further. This is doing my head in! Having friends over tonight & no sounds from my 'great new pc'! Please help! I don't think the sound card is recognised & I've got no idea how to resolve it. Here are my outputs from 'lsmod' and 'lspci' which I saw requested in another similar thread. Maybe they'll tell you something.....they mean nothing to me! owen@owens-desktop:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by af_packet 21896 4 nls_iso8859_1 4224 2 nls_cp437 5888 2 vfat 12800 2 fat 52636 1 vfat binfmt_misc 11400 1 ipv6 257700 14 rfcomm 38684 2 l2cap 22788 11 rfcomm bluetooth 52324 4 rfcomm,l2cap capability 5000 0 ppdev 9348 0 powernow_k8 11916 0 cpufreq_stats 5508 0 cpufreq_ondemand 8084 1 cpufreq_powersave 1792 0 cpufreq_conservative 6560 0 cpufreq_userspace 4116 0 freq_table 4740 3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand container 4608 0 ac 5252 0 video 17164 0 sbs 18568 0 button 8080 0 dock 9476 0 battery 10116 0 sbp2 23304 0 lp 11460 0 joydev 10432 0 wlan_scan_sta 13696 1 ath_rate_sample 13184 1 cx22702 6404 1 cx88_dvb 15876 0 cx88_vp3054_i2c 3712 1 cx88_dvb dvb_pll 14596 2 cx88_dvb video_buf_dvb 6916 1 cx88_dvb dvb_core 80168 1 video_buf_dvb ath_pci 96288 0 usbhid 28384 0 cx8802 18436 1 cx88_dvb hid 27008 1 usbhid cx8800 33784 0 cx88xx 66980 3 cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx8800 compat_ioctl32 1408 1 cx8800 serio_raw 7044 0 parport_pc 36132 1 parport 35656 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc pcspkr 3072 0 ir_common 34436 1 cx88xx i2c_algo_bit 6532 2 cx88_vp3054_i2c,cx88xx tveeprom 15888 1 cx88xx videodev 28288 2 cx8800,cx88xx v4l2_common 17536 3 cx8800,cx88xx,videodev v4l1_compat 14468 1 videodev btcx_risc 5000 3 cx8802,cx8800,cx88xx video_buf 25604 5 cx88_dvb,video_buf_dvb,cx8802,cx8800,cx88xx rtc 13208 0 wlan 205636 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci psmouse 38672 0 ath_hal 191696 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci k8temp 5760 0 i2c_nforce2 6144 0 nvidia 6218832 34 agpgart 33584 1 nvidia i2c_core 25104 9 cx22702,cx88_dvb,cx88_vp3054_i2c,dvb_pll,cx88xx,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_nforce2,nvidia evdev 10240 5 ext3 129928 1 jbd 53416 1 ext3 mbcache 8324 1 ext3 sg 36124 0 sd_mod 29200 7 ide_cd 31776 0 cdrom 36512 1 ide_cd ata_generic 7556 0 usb_storage 71744 3 libusual 17552 1 usb_storage ohci_hcd 21764 0 ohci1394 35760 0 ieee1394 94904 2 sbp2,ohci1394 forcedeth 49672 0 sata_nv 19460 2 libata 125040 2 ata_generic,sata_nv scsi_mod 146828 5 sbp2,sg,sd_mod,usb_storage,libata amd74xx 14364 0 [permanent] ide_core 114772 3 ide_cd,usb_storage,amd74xx ehci_hcd 35084 0 usbcore 136088 6 usbhid,usb_storage,libusual,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd thermal 13448 0 processor 23984 2 powernow_k8,thermal fan 4868 0 commoncap 7424 1 capability fuse 44948 3 owen@owens-desktop:~$ lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2) 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2) 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51PV [GeForce 6150] (rev a2) 00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3) 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3) 00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3) 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1) 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1) 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev c0) 01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05) 01:09.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05) 01:09.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [IR Port] (rev 05) 01:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01) owen@owens-desktop:~$