Hi, On my dell 1400 laptop, the os is gentoo and I have upgraded the alsa-driver from version 1.0.14_rc3 to 1.0.14-r1, and now, the sound gone. # lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) # lsmod | grep snd snd_seq_oss 28096 0 snd_seq_device 4880 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event 4800 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 40928 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 35936 0 snd_mixer_oss 13056 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_hda_intel 264096 0 snd_pcm 59336 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel snd_timer 15816 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 39912 8 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 7056 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm soundcore 6944 1 snd # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 21 # aplay ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:545: audio open error: No such file or directory then, # dmesg | tail [...] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1b.0 disabled ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64 ALSA /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14-r1/work/alsa-driver-1.0.14/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c:1232: stac92xx_auto_fill_dac_nids: No available DAC for pin 0x0 Any help will be very appreciated! -- wcw ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user