I've got a small Creative USB Audigy sound device connected to an ASUS laptop. (I could get the model # with difficulty as it's buried under the back of a very tight desk). If I boot into Vista, the sound is perfect. If I boot into F8 it comes out sounding harshly distorted and sounding as if its looped back on itself. Thinking it was pulse, I played with various settings but never got good sound. I just removed the two files alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and kde-settings-pulseaudio recommended in a separate thread, to disable pulse. I still have the exact same distorted echoing audio. Anyone else seen this? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA