On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:49 +0100, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: > I do not know what a suitable solution might be. Paid-for support > could > be an alternative. A vendor selling "certified" hardware and > combinations of hardware might be another. I know that I have spent > more than a full week trying to solve my problem now (and more before > that), and would probably be willing to pay something for qualified > help. > > The fact still remains, though, that the deepest insight into alsa is > found among the developers. So, for the hardest problems, the > developers would probably still have to be involved. And there we > are > again. > What error does "vxloader" give when trying to load the firmware? It's possible that this driver has bitrotted - the only other reference I see to it on LAU before your message is a similar issue in 2004. Does anyone out there have one of these working with recent ALSA versions? Do you have a machine with a really old distro on it you can test? Lee