Hi Don,

Thanks for a speedy response, I'm totally thrilled that I can do some constructive learning regarding Solaris 11 and get to the bottom of this.
You make some interesting points and posed some good questions
My Motherboard is an Asus K8N-DRE with two 6 core Opterons.
The sound card is Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio (PCIe) with a CA0110-IBG chipset. Or, do I need more specific information? Link is here: support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=1&CatName=Sound+Blaster&prodID=16770&prodName=PCI+Express+X-Fi+Xtreme+Audio (Sorry, aparently I'm not allowed to hyperlink, YET)
The CMedia Part # is pm2ft8768x3c and the version is 2.0 and the manufacturers very own description can be had here. cmedia.com.tw/ProductsDetail/page-p/C1Serno-53/C2Serno-56/PSerno-33.html
$ cat /etc/release gives the following output:

Code:

Oracle Solaris 11.3 X86
  Copyright (c) 1983, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
                            Assembled 06 October 2015

And

Code:

uname -a gives:
SunOS Huge-Balls 5.11 11.3 i86pc i386 i86pc

Pardon my Solaris client name, I never had any intention of anyone seeing that.

As far as speakers go, they are external amplified 2.1 logitech speakers that plug directly into the sound card. The manufacturers website regarding this product is here: logitech.com/en-us/product/speaker-system-z313
As far as the diagnostics, I'm not sure which log file you'd like me to look at. Could you tell me what and where I can pull it up and give it to you?

Thanks again Don for all your help and time.

-Pete

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I keep getting messages to fix my "codes", I'm trying to and not having any luck, when I try to respond to private messages I'm told it's not possible until I reach a 10 post count. I can't list hyper-links until I reach a certain count either.
One of my private messages looked like it had a video tutorial, unfortunately, I'm missing that plugin. I'm not sure if there is another way to see a tutorial.
I'm definitely here to learn, being new to UNIX I'm frustrated and losing sleep and time throughout my day, so, a little latitude would be greatly appreciated.
I'm not some trouble maker, and once again, I'm here to learn, which means I MUST be taught, but, if I'm going to keep being admonished without proper teaching, I'll go somewhere else for help.
Thx and sorry for my shortcomings.