Hi Alan, sndconfig still locked up on me with the cs46xx driver in -ac6, but I found the culprit. Too lazy to figure out how to officially submit a patch, but the body should look like what I attached. Looks like you're too pessimistic. If everything works OK first time you don't believe it. Oh well, looking at your diary, given all those contractors I can't blame your mindset ;-) Grtz, Ben