I think I'm missing something on the install for Alsa. I'm trying to get sound to work on my Thinkpad now finally, and I'm following the how-to from Alsa's website. I'm using the alsa 0.5.10 files, I've unzipped, ran the ./configure, make, and make install on all three driver/lib/utils. I ran the ./snddevices in the /usr/src/alsa-driver* directory. According to the how-to, it should have made a directory called /dev/snd. Instead it created a link to /proc/asound/dev which is a non-existant directory. So, where do I go from here? Do I create the directory which is supposed to be linked from the /dev/snd link that was created or ???? Also, I'm supposed to load the nv256 module (for the NeoMagic256 audio device) which isn't found on my system at all now after all this. So, while I've got some spare time that I can use to configure my sound on this thing can someone with more experience on this give me some pointers or direction on what to do with these two issues? Do I rerun the steps I've taken above and create the /proc/asound/dev directory? I'm running Slack 7.1 with the 2.2.16 kernel. I do plan on going up to 2.4.2 but I'm unfamiliar with the procedure and would prefer to wait until the 12th when someone can give me some more guidance on this. Thanks, Shawn