[linux-audio-user] Hammerfal crackling when booting.

A friend of mine exchanged a Creamware for a Hammerfal DSP 9652, and has just installed fc3 and CCRMA. He is really impressed by the state of linux audio. When the hdsp driver is loaded, the card makes a crackling noise until gdm comes up. Is this normal? Aditionaly, there is no devices in the midi patchbay in qjackctl. Probably just som missing snd_seq_* modules, but shouldn't the CCRMA setup take care of this? He wants to play audio cd's without using the tiny cable from the cdrom, but xmms and kscd crashes when configured to use digital playback. Kscd complains about permissions, but the cdrom device is rw to the user. Just tested this on my Ubuntu box, and here both xmms works perfectly. I'm not used to using digital playback for cd's, but wouldn't this be analog to "cdparanoia 1 - | aplay" ? (pun intended). -- Frode Haugsgjerd Norway