Good news: It works now. But I still suspect a bug / an incompatibilty in the driver. Today, I checked playback - that worked perfectly. Then I tried arecord / aplay - perfectly. Then I switched the encoder (darkice) from OSS to alsa - now that works to. I rechecked OSS - it's definitely the OSS compatibility layer which does not work - but worked fine before the card was replaced. I also found another problem but this might be a darkice bug but I still want to discuss it, because I had this problem with other cards, too: When using alsa in darkice, setting the samplerate to 44100 in darkice as well as the mixer the samplerates still do not match. The 44100 Hz stream is "too fast", resulting in mickey mouse voices and lag every few seconds. This issue can be solved by setting defaults.pcm.dmix.rate to 44100 in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf. Do you have an idea why this problem is here? Is it truely a darkice bug, as it doesn't set the samplerate of the sounddevice properly or where is the cause? Greets and thanks für the help, Manuel -- Kanal Ratte 104,5 MHz Freies Radio Schopfheim Hauptstrasse 82 79650 Schopfheim Tel: +49 7622 6692-53 Fax: +49 7622 6692-54 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel