Andy Zbikowski wrote: > > From time to time, yes. Lately though sound has been fine (Espically > suprising since I now play Quake 3 under Linux.) You could try libesd-alsa0 > instead of libesd0. (My onboard Via sound is supported through Alsa, if this > doesn't apply to you, ignore me!) OK. I got alsa working with my onbord via. Thanks BTW. But when I try to install libesd-alsa0 it wants to remove just about every helixgnome package. How do I install it while keeping my helixgnome? # apt-get install libesd-alsa0 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: bug-buddy codecommander dia eog esound gaim-gnome gdm gedit ghex glade-gnome gmc gnapster gnome-applets gnome-bin gnome-card-games gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-games gnome-gataxx gnome-glines gnome-gnibbles gnome-gnobots2 gnome-gnometris gnome-gnomine gnome-gnotravex gnome-gtali gnome-gturing gnome-gv gnome-help gnome-iagno gnome-iconedit gnome-mahjongg gnome-media gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-pim gnome-pim-conduits gnome-same-gnome gnome-session gnome-stones gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnome-xbill gnomeicu gnucash gnumeric gqview grdb gtop helix-sweetpill libcapplet0 libesd0 libgdk-pixbuf2 libglade-gnome0 libgnome-pilot0 libgnome32 libgnomeprint11 libgnomeprint6 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtkhtml4 libzvt2 memprof pan rep-gtk sawfish sawfish-gnome sawfish-themes task-helix-core task-helix-gnome xchat-gnome xmms xmms-vorbis The following NEW packages will be installed: libesd-alsa0 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 75 to remove and 32 not upgraded. Need to get 15.5kB of archives. After unpacking 93.2MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Heck no!