> Yeah, I'm not convinced are issues are the same, though they seem > related. From reading your posts your crackling was happening on a > timed interval, where as mine is more of a random static. Nope, it is random static. And it is not continuous either... I would get it for only few seconds every now and then. > I have a laptop as well, but it is going on 5 years old, and this > problem is new since kernels .33+. I don't think I have this new USB > bus/hub that you are talking about. > That said, doing 2.6.39 with rtirq and nokms is the only way to solve it > in my case. That or use a really old release of a distro, which gives > me other issues non audio related. Is your graphic card a Radeon? I have found another post about someone mentionning KMS, issue with USB soundcards on recent Kernel and Radeon graphic card. I wonder if these 3 things might be related? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user