Hello all, I finally made a little bit of progress and got the LTSP to see the NTAVO 6020A's RealTek soundcard. I figured out that I wasn't using true PXEboot, rather the onboard XDMCP client which wasn't using lts.conf for config. Once I figured that out, and enabled pxe boot by hitting delete at the boot prompt and configuring the lan client and bootrom, I got a true PXE boot. Sound still isn't working correctly but the clients dmesg gets me more information. The relevant portion is below. I don't know if this indicates a problem with ALSA or if the line reading "ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: ALG96 (Unknown):" is what I should focus on. One annoyance is that after configuring pam to use winbind and pam_mount I can't log on to a gui on the machine or at a terminal so I can't just go in as root and look at System>Preferences>Sound to see if everything is set up correctly. Anyway here's what I got. My lts.conf file is below this dmesg output. Thanks to all of you for all of the great ideas and help you have extended! ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00: 10.1[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 5 to 11 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 11, io base 0x0000d800 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000dc00 usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: Logitech Optical USB Mouse as /class/input/input2 usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver usbcore: registered new driver usbkbd drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac4-2.5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 via82cxxx: Six channel audio available PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64 ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: ALG96 (Unknown) via82cxxx: Codec rate locked at 48Khz via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE400, IRQ 11 -accepting connections on port 16001 ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c3493:(snd_config_evalutate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: no such device ALSA lib conf.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: no such device ALSA lib confmisc.c.1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c.3493:(snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib confg.c.3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No Such Device Alsa lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default rc.sysinit completed, switching to multi-session mode Output of lts.conf: [Default] SERVER = <a href="http://192.168.0.254">192.168.0.254</a> XSERVER = auto X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL = "PS/2" X_MOUSE_DEVICE = "/dev/psaux" X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION = 400 X_MOUSE_BUTTONS = 3 USE_XFS = N SCREEN_01 = shell # SCREEN_01 = startx SCREEN_02 = shell SYSLOG_HOST = <a href="http://192.168.0.254">192.168.0.254</a> SOUND = Y SOUND_DAEMON = esd VOLUME = 75