I use a 96/8 Pad. Works great with ALSA and Jack both. I try to keep this page up to date about RME96/8: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=rme96 I can't speak for the Marian Marc 2 Pro. If you're up to it, I would recommend Gentoo over Red Hat + Planet CCRAM. It takes more work, but I get much better response from my machine with audio apps under gentoo. regards -Reuben -----Original Message----- From: Mirouf Linux [mailto:mirouflinuxaudio@yahoo.fr] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:33 PM To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu Subject: [linux-audio-user] RME DIGI 96/8 PAD or Marian Marc 2 Pro Hi everybody, I've got choice between RME Digi 96/8 PAD and Marian Marc 2 Pro in order to put in a Linux Box runnig Red Hat 9 and Planet CCRAM. Somebody Told me the RME Digi 96/8 series have some problems with alsa settings, did anyone use it? Does it work well with/without Jack ? Did someone run a Marian Card with ALSA (no info on alsa-project home page), and specialy a Marc 2 Pro? Does it work? Thanks François Gueurce Yahoo! Mail : votre e-mail personnel et gratuit qui vous suit partout ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.benefits.yahoo.com/