Greetings: I've narrowed down some parts of my current problems with sound. The mouse is definitely a noise-maker: I move, I get a not-nice ripping noise that tracks along with the mouse movement. I had hoped that the problem would be the nVidia binary video driver, but the problem occurs with the kernel sources driver as well. I've appended some background info in case anyone sees an obvious flaw in the system. A couple of things: I have no USB devices on this machine, so how can I get rid of the usb-uhci stuff hanging off the same interrupt as the SBLive ? Also, would it do any good to switch slots ? I've tried a number of different changes to XF86Config, got no joy from any. :( I've been working through the various suggestions from the Audio Quality HOWTO, nothing has worked yet. I'm open to any other non-$$$ suggested solutions... Best regards, dp 800 MHz Duron CPU 512 MB RAM SBLive Value kernel 2.4.24-ll (Planet CCRMA) ALSA 1.0.1 [dlphilp@localhost dlphilp]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30) 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] (rev 25) 00:12.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01) 00:14.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) 00:14.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) [dlphilp@localhost dlphilp]$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 11070087 XT-PIC timer 1: 16145 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 175283 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, EMU10K1 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC Ensoniq AudioPCI 10: 976593 XT-PIC nvidia 11: 447118 XT-PIC eth0 12: 575359 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 27715 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1676 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 11070994 ERR: 45523 MIS: 0