Ive finally decided to do this Linux thing properly, however im havign a bit of chew installing the Nforce unified drivers from Nvidia. I have somehow managed to get the NIC driver going and can get on the net, but the sound driver is proving a real problem. Ive tried double clicking on the archive file ive downloaded which gives an 'already installed' message and tried to install the package via 'kpacker' (i think its called) in which the package installs fine but then does nothing else. In the Mandrake control centre i have tried running the Hardware config tool for souncard but it just doesnt seem to do anything.

As you can probably im not in linux ATM, but i will be later on and hope to post more specifics then, however if you can cast any light on this i would be greatful.

Cheers

--Jakk