Hi all, I'm new to the list, so be gentle. Trying to get a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit functioning for a friend many many thousands of miles away. I found one moderately useful thread archive from this list, and it seems he who wrote the CA0106 ALSA driver module is on here. After a lot of stuffing about I discovered that the ca0106 was needed, not the emu10k1, much to my irritation. Eventually I upgraded the lad's kernel from 2.6.3 to 2.6.11 but just downloading the source and compiling it up. In addition I replaced all the ALSA user-space stuff with version 1.0.6 packages using assorted redhat rpms, as Mandrake appears as old as the hills re ALSA. Now I've got the card recognised... and things seem to believe they are playing fine. However there is no sound. The little gnomes in the back of my head shouted "it's the volume, it's the volume.. unmute something". However all volumes I can affect in alsamixer are now set to maximum. The remaining controls are all read only. What concerns me is that notable controls are missing, such as Master Volume and PCM Out. If I saw either of those I'd feel happier. I could attach the /etc/alsa.state file if it would assist anyone in seeing the probably obvious. Does anyone have an idea? Finally, if this is indeed completely the wrong place to post this, tell me so and I shall flee. I have however spent a long while rtfming the available sources, to little avail beyond getting the card noticed. Cheers, Edward