[PD] maudio quattro freezes pd

[metafor]

hi list

i try to get the m-audio quattro interface working in
pd. outside pd it seems to work ok. oss via xmms
is working and also aplay does his duty.

when i test signal i'm able to hear the sinus-sound,
but as soon as i play around in pd, like changing
the latency, the computer totally freezes, i can not
even reboot with "ctrl+alt+del".

i remarked, that on my laptop (quattro is working here)
i can change the sounddevices in the "media" tab.
oss/alsa/jack, but on my desktop-pc there is no such thing.
it seems that it's using oss, at least that's what i see in the
"audio settings". pd should be compiled with alsa.

has anybody experienced anything similar with
this soundcard?

on the alsa website in the usb-audio howto i saw
that some people experienced problems with
a nvidia graphiccard in combination with a intelchipset.

i'm running debian 2.4.22, alsa-0.9.8, pd-0.37.0
nvidia geforce4200, kt3-ultra2 mainboard

marc