Frédéric Becker wrote: Possible problem: your start-up scripts tries to start the sound card BEFORE some other devices, leading to an error at module load time. When you try by hand, you load it AFTER the other device (or service) so that it works. I already had this kind of issue once. The load of some driver was hanging the system when loaded AFTER some other hardware, not before. Just my 2 eurocent. -- Brent Frère Private e-mail: Brent(a)BFrere.net Postal address: 5, rue de Mamer L-8280 Kehlen Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg European Union Mobile: +352-021/29.05.98 Fax: +352-26.30.05.96 Home: +352-307.341 URL: http://BFrere.net If you have problem with my digital signature, please install the appropriate au thority certificate by browsing https://www.cacert.org/certs/root.crt.