I'm not sure what you mean exactly by Debian having control of your soundcard. Where are you getting stuck? Have yu downloaded a kernel source tarball? (It's easy once you know how, but without knowing where you're falling down, I'm afraid I won't be of much help.) -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV | Alena Grace's proud papa! Phone: (814) 455-7333 | Born: 04/06/2000 in Donetsk, Ukraine Email: buddy at brannan.name | Adopted: 10/07/2004 in Mariupol, Ukraine http://buddy.brannan.name |