On Nov 16, 2007 6:03 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > I still mainly use Ubutu 6.06. And I've found my 7.10 would > have one probelm on the sound card occasionally > (might be because of the non-working TV card which > also exposed as a sound card). I made it work after > the fresh install. But yesterday the sound was gone > again. I need to do some investigation. Ok it is due to Alsa mixer somehow forgot the volume settings again. Some say Alsa is crap... Thread: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.3/0070.html One more strange thing is that XPAD driver will claim PICkit 2. This is really nonsense. Last time the kernel claims PICDEM FS USB demo mode, now they want to claim PICkit 2 as an XBOX controller... So I end up adding xpad to the kernel modules blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and it seems to work. blacklist xpad Somehow blacklisting cx8800 (my TV card) does not work. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist