I have upgraded my OS from FC1 to FC3 and I do not have any sound. In FC1 there was no such problem. Soundcard information: Vendor: ALi Model: Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device Module: snd_ali5451 #grep snd /etc/modprobe.conf alias snd-card-0 snd-ali5451 options snd-card-0 index=0 #/sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1672 Northbridge [CyberALADDiN-P4] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller 00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 00:08.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 00:09.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0c.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 00:0c.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 00:0c.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) 00:11.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 33) 00:12.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82) #/sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by parport_pc 26501 0 lp 12077 0 parport 36617 2 parport_pc,lp md5 4033 1 ipv6 230273 8 autofs4 22981 0 sunrpc 154149 1 pcmcia 20805 2 ipt_REJECT 6593 6 iptable_filter 3521 1 ip_tables 16321 2 ipt_REJECT,iptable_filter microcode 6497 0 dm_mod 55509 0 video 15813 0 toshiba_acpi 5717 0 button 6609 0 battery 9285 0 ac 4805 0 yenta_socket 19137 0 pcmcia_core 50817 2 pcmcia,yenta_socket ohci_hcd 23381 0 ehci_hcd 34761 0 i2c_ali15x3 7109 0 i2c_core 20801 1 i2c_ali15x3 snd_ali5451 25605 1 snd_ac97_codec 67105 1 snd_ali5451 snd_pcm_oss 47861 0 snd_mixer_oss 17089 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 92233 3 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 28357 1 snd_pcm snd 52261 8 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9889 1 snd snd_page_alloc 9541 1 snd_pcm 8139too 26177 0 mii 4673 1 8139too ext3 116041 2 jbd 68185 1 ext3 This seems to be a common problem for FC3 users but none of the fixes posted on the web worked for me. Any ideas? Arko P.S. Sound works under Knoppix but there was no modprobe.conf file. Why?