All devices and cables are okay and I've double-checked that. I've already used that setup with another motherboard and it worked - unless I raised master and got the same sparkling noise. (But in that case the music was also loud, so I didn't care.) Greets! Mitsch _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user