Hi! Want to share my yet short technical experience with new Multiface II and Linux. 1) alsa-firmware-1.0.11 works perfectly, with both .11 and .12 drivers 2) alsa-firmware-1.0.12 does not work (trying to resolve it on alsa-dev) 3) 64x2@xxxxx works perfectly on stock 2.6.17-gentoo-r6 with patched pam (gentoo is slow adopting here). Didn't tried heavy load, though. 4) 64x2 @ 96k does not work at all. jackd gets killed by watchdog. seems it can't start playing. 128x2 @ 96k works perfectly. 5) if multiface box was power-cycled, firmware can't be loaded again, hdsploader gives: Upload firmware for card hw:0 Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:0 : Device or resource busy. I have cardbus version, so the solution is to reinsert the card. I suppose with pci you'll need a reboot. 6) More of a question: why alsamixer does not support hdsp? hdspmixer functionality do not look too complex for alsamixer. Hope this will help someone. Best regards, Dmitry.