cat /proc/interrupts gives the following           <div>CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3       CPU4       CPU5       CPU6       CPU7       <div>  0:         26          0          0     893152          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer</div>
<div>  1:         22          0          0         31       5062          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042</div><div>  8:          0          0          0          1          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0</div>
<div>  9:        729          0          0        148          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi</div><div> 12:      74387          0          0        173          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042</div>
<div> 16:   11853419          0          0          0          0          0         93          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, brcmsmac</div><div> 21:     613255          0          0        241          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb2</div>
<div> 40:    1664049          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  HPET_MSI-edge      hpet2</div><div> 41:          0     373735          0          0          0          0          0          0  HPET_MSI-edge      hpet3</div>
<div> 42:          0          0     244881          0          0          0          0          0  HPET_MSI-edge      hpet4</div><div> 43:          0          0          0     270616          0          0          0          0  HPET_MSI-edge      hpet5</div>
<div> 44:          0          0          0          0    1035760          0          0          0  HPET_MSI-edge      hpet6</div><div> 45:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0</div>
<div> 46:       6781       5882          0          0     424359          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      ahci</div><div> 47:          0          0          1          0          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd</div>
<div> 48:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd</div><div> 49:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd</div>
<div> 50:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd</div><div> 51:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd</div>
<div> 52:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd</div><div> 53:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd</div>
<div> 54:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      xhci_hcd</div><div> 55:          0          0          0          0        618          0          0     181167   PCI-MSI-edge      radeon</div>
<div> 56:          0          0          0          0          0        255        940          0   PCI-MSI-edge      hda_intel</div><div> 57:          0          0          0          0          0        624          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      hda_intel</div>
<div>NMI:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   Non-maskable interrupts</div><div>LOC:        146        135        118        101         83     292119     262176     323651   Local timer interrupts</div>
<div>SPU:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   Spurious interrupts</div><div>PMI:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   Performance monitoring interrupts</div>
<div>IWI:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   IRQ work interrupts</div><div>RES:       8835       2130       1206        621      13366       2364       1354        679   Rescheduling interrupts</div>
<div>CAL:        848       2123       2403       2402       1147       2676       2523       2331   Function call interrupts</div><div>TLB:      12484       8516       5371       4185      16856       5432       4059       2812   TLB shootdowns</div>
<div>TRM:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   Thermal event interrupts</div><div>THR:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts</div>
<div>MCE:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0   Machine check exceptions</div><div>MCP:         58         58         58         58         58         58         58         58   Machine check polls</div>
<div>ERR:          0</div><div>MIS:          0</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The sound cart is on the ehci usb1. I have noticed that my wifi card is using the same IRQ, but on my kernel especially compiled for music, the brcmsmac module is disabled.</div>
<div>That&#39;s enough to deactivate the hardware from using that interruption, isn&#39;t it?</div><div><br></div><div><div>lsusb -t</div><div>/:  Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/2p, 5000M</div><div>
/:  Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/2p, 480M</div><div>/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci_hcd/3p, 480M</div><div>    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=hub, Driver=hub/8p, 480M</div><div>
        |__ Port 2: Dev 7, If 0, Class=hub, Driver=hub/7p, 480M</div><div>            |__ Port 4: Dev 8, If 0, Class=HID, Driver=usbhid, 1.5M</div><div>            |__ Port 4: Dev 8, If 1, Class=HID, Driver=usbhid, 1.5M</div>
<div>            |__ Port 7: Dev 9, If 0, Class=stor., Driver=usb-storage, 480M</div><div>        |__ Port 5: Dev 4, If 0, Class=&#39;bInterfaceClass 0x0e not yet handled&#39;, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M</div><div>        |__ Port 5: Dev 4, If 1, Class=&#39;bInterfaceClass 0x0e not yet handled&#39;, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M</div>
<div>/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci_hcd/3p, 480M</div><div>    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=hub, Driver=hub/6p, 480M</div><div>        |__ Port 1: Dev 4, If 0, Class=vend., Driver=snd-usb-audio, 480M</div>
<div>        |__ Port 1: Dev 4, If 1, Class=vend., Driver=snd-usb-audio, 480M</div><div>        |__ Port 1: Dev 4, If 2, Class=vend., Driver=snd-usb-audio, 480M</div><div>        |__ Port 1: Dev 4, If 3, Class=audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 480M</div>
<div>        |__ Port 1: Dev 4, If 4, Class=app., Driver=snd-usb-audio, 480M</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>