[linux-audio-user] Multiface HDSP cardbus question

Hello there, I've just got a RME cardbus multiface for my toshiba laptop, and spent the usual stressing hours to configure my Linux box to use it. I configured everything, and the multiface works apparently flawlessly, up to about 5ms of latency. But i noticed a component inside the laptop makes a very high soft buzz every time the laptop accesses the multiface. It is not in the audio, it is a component inside the plastic case that hums. That doesn't seem to happen under winXP. Have anyone ever heard of such a thing? Is it a sign of something harmful happening to the computer? is it a frequency parameter set wrong in the pcmcia drivers and we get some kind of difference tone? But all works, what can it be? I do notice audacity freezes when it tries to access hw:1 (which is where the multiface is). But jack works without a glitch. These are probably unrelated things, though. Anyway, I am just hopeful someone out there may have an idea of what this is. Thanks, Marcus Bittencourt ======================================= Marcus A. Bittencourt email: alessi(a)music.columbia.edu website: http://mabitt.people.wm.edu ======================================= Estou pouco me lixando para o significado disso tudo, apenas radiante pela experiência. =======================================