Hi again, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: > As you seem to have "alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0" in > your /etc/modules.conf your internal sound card gets initialized first. I would agree with Wolfgang. I always have my HDSP in the first position, and the builtin card second. You have to mess around with a few things when you don't have th HDSP in order to get things running on the builtin card, but that's nothing that a few settings or a nicely written .asoundrc can't fix. d. -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 161: "Trust in the you of now"