Hello, I've been using mandriva spring 2008 for a while now and have had no trouble with drivers until now. I have no sound whatsoever and when i attempt to open an mp3 or wav with kaffeine i get the message: "Loading of player part 'XinePart' failed. All Audio Drivers failed to initialize."

[robert@Bob-PC ~]$ lspci |grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
[robert@Bob-PC ~]$ lspcidrake -v |fgrep -i AUDIO
snd_hda_intel : Intel Corporation|82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (vendor:8086 device:284b subv:17aa subd:20ac)
[robert@Bob-PC ~]$ grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf
alias sound-slot-0 snd_hda_intel

Thanks for the help!

Try disabling PulseAudio in the Mandriva control centre>hardware>sound configuration.

that worked... thanks a lot.

Great, glad it worked.