I've been a bit mystified that when I wanted to re-use the sound card on my old machine, a Creative Labs Audiology 2 Z [S0350] that case-load would not work for the first few minutes after booting, reporting that "no Emu devices were found". # lspci -s 00:09 -v 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs S Audiology (rev 04) Subsystem: Creative Labs S Audiology 2 Z (S0350) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 8400 [size=64] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: snd_emu10k1 00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs S Audiology Game Port (rev 04) Subsystem: Creative Labs S Audiology Game Port Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at 8000 [size=8] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: Emu10k1_gameport 00:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs S Audiology FireWire Port (rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Creative Labs S Audiology FireWire Port Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 Memory at d4800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci After some minutes, case-load worked fine and the soundfont loaded and MIDI playback worked fine. Any ideas or debugging tips welcomed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The best possible search technologies are now affordable for all companies. Download your FREE open source Enterprise Search Engine today! Our experts will assist you in its installation for $59/mo, no commitment. Test it for FREE on our Cloud platform anytime! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=145328191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user