> After listening to your mp3 I'm not confident that a new kernel is > going to help you. That's quite a strange bit of audio. i contacted rme's support ... they told me, that it might be the O2 controller ... they didn't knew if it's the same as in windows asio, that channels (i'm not sure what channels they meant, pci/cardbus channels or audio channels) don't create traffic on the bus... i've sent them a soundfile, too, maybe the have an idea, what's the problem... Tim mailto:TimBlechmann@xxxxxx ICQ: 96771783 -- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" Jack Kerouac