Hi guys Any SUSE specialist out there ?? :-) I always had problems with this card; honestly it's a pain in the neck. Wish I could replace it, but can't for the time being. Back then I was using 32-bit openSUSE-10.3 and had found a work around for getting sound form this card. Details are on link below http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/112495-avermedia-tv-card-not-working-under-suse10-3-a-4.html Basically I had to run a script before starting tv program (KDE Tv). .......... #!/bin/bash #This script is for automatically loading 'sox' with specific parameters. #modprobe saa7134-alsa index=1,2 sox -q -c 2 -s -r 32000 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp2 -t ossdsp -r 32000 /dev/dsp ........... Since then a few things have changed.... My current Motherboard is GA-MA785GPM-UD2H from Gigabyte. My Processor is AMD Athlon II X2 250. My OS is openSUSE 11.3_x86_64. I am using the built in sound card as well as the graphics. The program I use to watch Tv is tvtime. Both the programs (sox & tvtime) are from packman repositories. In fact I have switched my system packages to packman repository. After fiddling around for a while I observed the following things Under Yast->Sound it shows two sound cards 0 - SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) 1 - ATI Technologies Inc Why is that ?? I only have one card! But this is the most interesting thing that I observed; If I login & start Amarok, then if I try to execute the sox script for tv then it shows .................... emon at magic-box:~> /home/emon/sox_script_for_tv.sh sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy ................... and fails to produce any sound for tvtime. So now I close amarok or stop the music & then execute the script, I get sound on tvtime!! But if I open tvtime first after login and execute the script, I get sound on tvtime; but after that if I try to start amarok, KDE simply notifies that: ................. The audio playback device HDA ATI SB (alc889a) does not work. ................ and fails to play any music. I have to stop the script from executing & restart Amarok. So with my little knowledge, it seems to me that the applications are not able to share the hardware resource simultaneously!! Hope I did a fair job of explaining the problem..... Any correction , pointers/tips will be highly appreciated Emon