Hi, having my RME hdsp pcmcia card inserted in my laptop on startup results in assigning it card number 0 and assigning the built-in soundcard card number 1. I'd prefer it the other way round, so that the internal card *always* gets number 0, no matter whether the pcmcia card is present or not. It used to work that way with a 2.4 setup and alsa 1.0.4. My current setup uses debian sarge and a custom 2.6.13.1 kernel. This is in my modules.conf: alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias snd-card-1 snd-virmidi alias snd-card-2 snd-hdsp I also cannot rmmod the snd-intel8x0 once the computer has booted despite the fact, that no program is claiming it. With the old setup I remember that stopping alsa (in /etc/init.d) resulted in a removal of all snd_* modules. -- Orm