Dave Phillips wrote: > 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 ? as frank said, either turn off usb in your bios, or if that's not possible, move the card around. -- The handles of a craftsman's tools bespeak an absolute simplicity, the plainest forms affording the greatest range of possibilities for the user's hand. That which is overdesigned, too highly specific, anticipates outcome; the anticipation of outcome guarantees, if not failure, the absence of grace. - William Gibson, "All Tomorrow's Parties" J?rn Nettingsmeier Kurf?rstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers)