ok Mark (and others) - reporting - lspci: 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME Hammerfall DSP (rev 65) which hdspmixer: /usr/bin/hdspmixer checked /usr/local/bin and no hdspmixer in there cat /proc/asound/card0/hdsp: RME Hammerfall HDSP 9652 (Card #1) Buffers: capture dde00000 playback ddc00000 IRQ: 11 Registers bus: 0xe7000000 VM: 0xe097f000 Control register: 0x1008098 Control2 register: 0x800 Status register: 0x207000e Status2 register: 0xffff8041 FIFO status: 0 MIDI1 Output status: 0xffffff00 MIDI1 Input status: 0xffffff00 MIDI2 Output status: 0xffffff00 MIDI2 Input status: 0xffffff00 <SNIP> 2 status and control registers hmmmmmm guess I was using old hdspmixer... -- -------------- Aaron Trumm NQuit www.nquit.com --------------