Hello, just got on the list, so greets to all. actually, this weekend marks the final success of a 6 month battle learning Debian linux from scratch and getting my HDSP card running on my laptop. i moved all my PD patches made under windoze over to the Linux partition, fired up the card and made some real free software noise finally. have to say I'm finally quite pleased :-) my setup is: Asus L3 series laptop with Cardbus and Multiface. as of yesterday, i can run all channels of the HDSP under Alsa and Jack, although I do not have --realtime priority for the Jack yet [requires a recompile that I will do this afternoon]. I compiled the Alsa drivers and Jack myself, and am using .deb packages from Demudi [development Sarge version, due for "official release" in a few weeks] for most of my apps, including Ardour, which seems to run fine. [Ardour can be very tricky to self-compile.. it seems to have hundreds of dependencies and flags to change!] I would say that the best resource I have found for the HDSP card is this page: http://pd.klingt.org/files/hdsp-howto.html Dieb is using a Dell Inspiron 8000, but he has gathered just about all the needed info there to get the HDSP going, assuming you can compile Alsa and Jack and know how to start them. otherwise, here is a good place to start [probably everybody knows this one...]: http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/ALSA_JACK_ARDOUR.html One thing I did discover: Mandrake and Redhat both gave me serious problems even recognizing the PCMCIA card. seems there was some kind of IRQ conflict, but I didn't linger long with those distros anyhow, so I couldn't offer a mor detailed explaination... which distro are you running, Darren? Another thing for you to investigate would be the PCMCIA drivers on your laptop. see Dieb13's page above for more info on that. good luck! derek Jaakko Prättälä wrote: