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>has anyone figured out how to get the thinkpad 750's audio chip [MWAVE] >to work with either Linux or *bsd? Not sure exactly what you're asking here, but right now my TP755CD runs Linux, and I have no problem playing audio CD's or .WAV files. The trick is to boot up DOS first, and use the MWGAMES command to load the SoundBlaster emulation into the MWAVE. (Just type MWGAMES ON CD; you may need to type MWGAMES OFF and/or MWMODEM OFF first.) Then use loadlin to boot Linux. Your Linux kernel should be configured for SB support, of course. As I said, this trick will let you play audio CD's and .WAV files under Linux. But you can't play MIDI files, for unknown reasons. Also, the SoundBlaster emulation isn't very good; the MWAVE emulates an 8-bit SoundBlaster. You can do `MWMODEM PRO' to make it emulate a SoundBlaster Pro instead, but at the price of giving up the ability to play CD's. Almost forgot. If you close the ThinkPad cover, the SB emulation goes away and you have to start all over again. As you may have gathered, I'm not impressed by IBM's MWAVE. Is IBM using it in more recent ThinkPads? -- Robert S. Maier | Internet: rsm@math.arizona.edu Dept. of Math. | Univ. of Arizona | Tucson, AZ 85721 | FAX: +1 520 621 8322 U.S.A. | Voice: +1 520 621 6893 (dept.), +1 520 621 2617 (office)