James Pearson wrote: > > I assume something does probe some how - which is what I trying to work > out. i.e. what exactly does the probe and where in the startup sequence > is this done? After adding various debug echo's to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, the sound modules are loaded by udev (/sbin/start_udev) So I now know how the sound modules are loaded at system start up James Pearson