That's strange, I'm using the quattro with redhat 8.0 and the latest version of alsa, but I'm using the ccrma acpi kernel. Maybe you're using a slightly older kenerl, there could be problems with older drivers maybe. http://www.brianredfern.org On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Dave Griffiths wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using an m-audio quattro usb soundcard with my laptop using alsa 0.9.2. > I'm experiencing the audio device periodically shutting down - I have to > unplug and plug in the usb cable a few times before it comes back up. > > It is better than it was - I was getting system freezes with a previous > version of alsa, so it sounds like the driver might be the culprit. > > I just wondered if anyone else has experienced this problem, and might have > found a solution. It only occurs every hour or so of use, it's quite intermittent. > > cheers, > > dave >