Hi all , sad newbie here :( to recap i out a fresh demudi install on our studio machine and got to the point where i was confident I could record line in audio etc using ardour, and play hydrogen etc etc. So the date was set for the band to come in and record. I booted the machine and alsa seems broken. errors below,, and i have no idea where to start. Its possible (it was a week ago memory faded with depression) that i broke it when i tried to install a second sound card (thinking id get 4 inputs, ok I have learnt that doesnt work) but what ever i have done its broken. I removed the 2nd card, tried alsaconf tried alsactl restore (got some no file found or something) still no go :( Ill try and be clearer next post. the studio machine isnt always online(have to run a cable out) I used gaim to transfer the dmesg info to another box with email. now there is a point i had to apt get install gaim with some other settings on sources list I wonder if that screwed something up. Im sure i had it working after that tho. PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:08.0 ALSA ../alsa-kernel/pci/ens1370.c:527: wait source ready timeout 0xec10 [0xffffffff] lots of the above line, and i mean lots ALSA ../../alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1868: AC'97 0 access is not valid [0x0], removing mixer depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/kernel/drivers/media/radio/miropcm20.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-vxp440.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o Loading driver... Restoring ALSA mixer settings ... failed: You may want to run 'alsactl restore' manually to view any errors. Setting default volumes...