I have been having great luck with Slackware 9.1 and Luke's AudioSlack software. With my onboard sound chip (using SI7012 driver) I was recording with Adrour, getting zero xruns in Jack, even with Hydrogen running in the background providing drums! Wow, I was impressed. So I made the jump to a higher-end soundcard and installed the Delta 1010TL. Now, it seems to be recognized by Alsa, because the Ice1712 driver is loaded. When I cat /proc/asound/cards I see it as 0 and the onboard sound chip as 1. There are also entries when I cat /proc/adound/devices. But now I am completely lost... I have been reading the documentation on the .asoundrc file, and have even tried to replace my existing file with something I pulled off teh Alsa site for another, similar card that used the same driver. Can anyone help me make sense of setting this up? Is there a standard setup that for all of this cards ins/outs? I feel like it's way over my head. Thanks for any help! I am a little discouraged today, but I am very pleased to finally be making some music in Linux! Jay