I'm not sure where to begin-- A few weeks ago, in order to get some plugins working on swami, I was forced by a dependency loop to try: apt-get -o Apt::Force-Loopbreak=1 -f upgrade which mostly succeeded in upgrading my Agnula. But not ALSA has gone whacko on me, so that I basically have to reconfigure it every time I restart (which is more often than I'd like, 'cause my wife wants to use Windows). The first thing I noticed was that when starting something simple like xmms, or even sox at the commandline, I would get a message like "no device found." So I looked on the alsa-project website for info. about installing ALSA for my card, which takes the ensoniq 1371 drivers. Well, after poring over the troubleshooting info. about what to do when I get no sound, I tried rerunning alsaconf, and then modprobe snd-pcm-oss modprobe snd-mixer-oss modproble snd-seq-oss. For a few boots, this was working. After I did the above, I'd start alsamixer, which of course had reverted back to all muted channels and the levels all down at zero. But now, not even the modprobe steps do anything, and when I try and run alsaconf (as root) it detects my card, tells me that snd-ens1371 is configured, but tells me about all these unresolved symbols: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/kernel/drivers/media/radio/miropcm20.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-vxp440.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o Loading driver... and then the message that restoring the mixer settings has failed. What's going wrong? And why is ALSA forgetting its configuration between boots? ARRRGGH! Thanks for any help, Mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com