First, I'm absolutely NO guru at this. HOWEVER, I noticed your LSMOD. If you would, you might try looking at this: cd /proc cat interrupts I believe there is a good chance you may find your USB and your 3c5x9 and your sound card all on the same IRQ. Not that this *should* be a problem, but for me it certainly was. ( No, I do not have your sound card either ) I removed USB from my kernel, and I fiddled in my BIOS to try and get things to balance out across more IRQ's. That helped me. FYI, HTH a little at least -AEF -- I don't use a keyboard anymore, my cat does all my typing for me... _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel