I purchased a USB Turntable(Bus 001 Device 002: ID 08bb:2900 Texas Instruments Japan) and rebooted my machine. Lo and behold, I no longer have access to my sound card(00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)). It is not even listed in system-config-soundcard. If I disconnect the USB Turntable and reboot, my audio device becomes available again. Taking a look at my modprobe.conf shows an oddity: options snd cards_limit=8 alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 options snd-usb-audio index=0 options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-intel8x0 index=0 The snd-intel8x0 is aliased to snd-card-0, but it doesn't appear. Quite strange indeed. Seems like a minor bug here as the same thing happens with my USB headset and my USB webcam(it has a microphone in it). Any ideas? Sean
