Well after further review it looks like the .asoundrc file doesn¹t have much to do with it. Now it looks like the sound will work about every 4th or 5th time I boot. And also I looked at my /proc/asound/cards and it shows my delta 44 and the Unitor 8 but what about my built in apple sound? [steve@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [M66 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 66 M Audio Delta 66 at 0x40, irq 54 1 [AMT8 ]: USB-Audio - AMT8 Emagic AMT8 at usb-0001:02:0b.2-1.3.4.2, full speed Can someone please help me with this?? Hi All, I have a strange problem with the sound in my system. I have Fedora Core 5 on a Power Mac 2.3gHz with a Delta 44 sound card and a Unitor 8 midi interface. I have spent much of the last month or so perusing the mailing lists trying to find the answer to my problem. OK here it is. The sound system works only after I boot once without a .asoundrc file and then boot again with one. There is a thread that discusses something about detection order. From what I can gather the Unitor 8 is being confused with a sound card. Another thing I think I understand is that there is no set order in which hardware is detected. What I don't understand is how to get the actual sound card detected before the Unitor. I read that in order to do this I should have something like "options snd-ice1712 index=0" in my /etc/modprobe.conf file. Here are the contents of that file: alias eth0 sungem alias scsi_hostadapter sata_svw alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1712 options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-ice1712 index=0 remove snd-ice1712 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ice1712 alias snd-card-1 snd-powermac options snd-card-1 index=1 options snd-powermac index=1 remove snd-powermac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-powermac As you can see that line is in there. And being a Linux newbie I don't have much of a clue about what the rest of the file does. Here is the contents of my .asoundrc file: pcm.ice1712 { type hw card 0 } ctl.ice1712 { type hw card 0 } I would appreciate any and all help that comes my way. I'll even sing at your next wedding if you can help me get this working correctly :-) Thanks, Steve