On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 20:52 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > 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 > Hmmm...I changed this section of my modprobe.conf to the following and success! options snd cards_limit=8 alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-intel8x0 index=0 options snd-usb-audio index=1 I can now access my sound devices correctly. Seems kudzu or whatever is doing the automatic h/w detection is barfing the wrong information into modprobe.conf. Moreover, is my configuration about 'correct' in that it is setup as it should be? Sean