This is FYI. I have a creative X-fi soundcard and have been compiling developer builds for a couple of weeks, mostly with great success. But as of the 1/9 build, my X-fi card is no longer recognized. The driver it uses is CA0110. I do not re-compile kernel. Susan FYI PS -- About sound quality... I had been running Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 on Linux through wine using the driver. The program measures accuracy for dictated sounds, and my scores have been pretty good, running from 28-31. With the hda-intel they are 25-28. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel