Hello, I did make the failure to not check before buy, but because the last problem reports are from about a year ago, I think the card should work. -- from lspci 86:00.0 Audio device [0403]: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG [1102:0009] Subsystem: Creative Labs Device [1102:0018] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B+ DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18 Region 0: Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel -- The kernel is a 64-Bit linux-2.6.33.2 original unpatched from kernel.org The mainboard is a Tyan S4985E. I dont want to fill up the message with boot log and all that stuff before there is a need. I am willing to help to find the problem in nearly any way because this is my workstation and I do need the PCI slot for some other purpose so I do want to get this card working. the alsa driver snd-hda-intel gives the following messages. [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 [ 3361.622125] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000 and with a quick look into the kernel I would think that the driver has a wrong idea about the interrupts received and the work that has to be done. More Infos infos if needed. Any help would be great. BR Hans-Juergen Lange _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel