>So far, every distro I have installed will not find my Dell Optiplex, >integrated sound card. I need to do a dozen workstation installs of the >same box. I see that some people are using Soundblaster Live cards. Will >this card work for most Linux distros? I hope not to be spewing reduntant information here, but this is what I found: ALSA drivers do run most of the SoundBlaster cards, you can view more information here http://opensource.creative.com/soundcard.html ALSA's sound card matrix http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Creative_Labs#matrix "Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds" - Einstein "Cuanta estupidez en tan poco cerebro!"