> Could you please be more detailed regarding HDSP 9652 problem? hmmm. I was thinking about that after I wrote and honestly I can't remember *LAUGH* well the last problem I remember having was the machine freezing when I started jack or at various random intervals while running ardour and everyone seemed to think that had to do with the driver for the RME card - I'm not having that problem anymore, after some updating of Jack and Ardour and I think I updated to a 2.6 kernel as well before that I was running on red hat and I remember the whole discussion of not being able to "fix" the driver, but then eventually being up and running fine I'm wondering if Mark K will respond - he's a 9652 guy too, but he eventually gave up on that card under Linux, whereas mine's humming just fine...take it away Mark... :) ...