Thanks Janina. But in debian traditionally one isn't supposed to edit the modprobe.conf or, as it was in 2.4, the modules.conf. You put an alsa file in /etc/modutils and when you did update-modules, that was then added to your modules-conf. I'll have to try to research how it's supposed to work now. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."