hi, I'm facing similar crappy IRQ settings on my Thinkpad R61 here as Svend-Erik described - my cardbus shares it's interrupt with the graphicscard. I spent 2 nights now to play around with the (only available) settings in bios, which was to adjust pcibusses from preadjusted "11" to anything else and finally "automatic" - without any success. I tried to switch off APIC, ACPI, I tried pci=assign_busses - nothing changed. I wonder if it would make sense then to spend the money for a device like E-MU 1616 or even RME Multiface... Things seem to be a little better on firewire - the 1394 only shares it's interrupt with a unused usbbus and the also unused onbordsound - would it be probably the better way to go for a, lets say, Presonus Firepod? I'm sorry to further stress that exasperating hardware item but it's really a pain to find a solution - there is a huge amount of info out there in the web - but finding something which really leads one further can be a punishment. thanks a lot for any hints Susanne _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user