Has anyone else experienced quieter sound from sound modules in the 2.4 kernels? I have to set everything way higher to even hear it.... I think it's driver dependent, but it DID do it for two different sound cards with different drivers. These are the modules currently loaded es1371: version v0.30 time 20:34:10 Mar 18 2002 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0f.0 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x08 es1371: found es1371 rev 8 at io 0xfc40 irq 9 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5913 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev A) Maybe I should just try the alsa drivers.... -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreneet.org