I have a SB Live card and a self-compiled 2.4.0-0.14mdk kernel. Using either creative or alsa driver, i have very poor sound quality, to the point i even thought i had broken my speakers. Don't knwo what i can do for investigate this topic a bit more... -- Guillaume Rousse Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will. O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist.