Finally I moved back to hardcoding the parameters on the driver. I tried to setup my BIOS to work for PNP and then I removed my driver parameters from /etc/modules.conf At that point I could not load sound drivers anymore. In the other hand, when I setup parameters for the driver... it works. Yet it gives some error messages. As I have pnp support in my kernel (I do use it for USB) I get some confusing message that makes me think it could be detecting the card by means of pnp. Actually, it tries to use pnp but are the parameters set in /etc/modules.conf what makes it work... If I comment out this parameters sound goes silent :-( So far, I have sound working... but just play... I never could reach to record anything. Have you tried sucessfully???