On Friday January 25 2008 8:56:00 am Claude Jones wrote: > 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? The Audigy is an NX 2 At work, I connect to a Lexicon Omega USB sound box - it works perfectly - could I be trying to run the Audigy with Lexicon drivers? I've found references in other distros to forcing the Alsa drivers to reload each time I boot - the commands didn't apply to Fedora, however, and I ran out of time this am... According to my Soundcard Detection GUI when booted at home, it's seeing the Audigy - at work, opening the same GUI shows it has detected my Lexicon -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA