BTW here's what dmesg says:Sounds like the usb audio module is interfering.
es1371: version v0.32 time 18:00:00 Mar 13 2003 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x06 es1371: found es1371 rev 6 at io 0xef00 irq 5 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23) usbaudio: dma timed out?? es1371: unloading usbaudio: dma timed out??
Try "rmmod audio", then unoad/reload es1371 -
Joe