When booting the computer , sometimes the sound works and sometimes not. I run FC8 on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo 1425 Laptop. I ran Ububtu and sounds works with no problem. Also under Windows works sound fine. I looked up some pages I found through Google but none of them helped to fix it. This is thr output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 21) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 21) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] 02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 02:0b.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20) 02:0b.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20) 02:0b.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator 02:0d.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05) I found the following in /var/log/messages: When sound works: Nov 18 18:16:14 MGPRJRWR kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50992 usecs Nov 18 18:16:14 MGPRJRWR kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 48000 Nov 18 18:16:14 MGPRJRWR kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10 When sound does not work: Nov 18 12:26:30 MGPRJRWR kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50023 usecs Nov 18 12:26:30 MGPRJRWR kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 48000 Nov 18 12:26:30 MGPRJRWR kernel: Unable to initialize codec #0 When sound does not work and I try ther system to detect the soundcard: Nov 18 12:28:01 MGPRJRWR kernel: codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Thanks for your help in advance. Wolfgang ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user