On Thursday 11 October 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: >cat /proc/asound/version [warning, long lines ahead] [root@coyote ~]# cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Fri Jul 20 09:12:58 2007 UTC). Audio here is a dual 'card' , mobo nvidia chipset is set for gizmo's use, and the main output is from an audigy-2, the real one. Some minor acrobatics in my modprobe.conf: remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1 remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0 #install ipv6 /bin/true remove snd-mpu401 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 2 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-mpu401 # nvidia kernel module options snd cards_limit=8 alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-emu10k1 index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 options snd-intel8x0 index=1 alias snd-card-7 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=7 options snd-mpu401 index=2 Does this help? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weisert