This page: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main isn't clear enough for me. $ sr lspci -vv -s 00:07.0 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M3N72-D Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at fe020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+ Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Masking: 00000000 Pending: 00000000 Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+ My problem is that two days ago, sound stopped and I have no idea what has changed. cat /proc/asound/cards yielded some information earlier today, but that pseudo-file disappeared after that, so I cannot show the output. Some module obviously unloaded itself. I see a lot of modules under /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop/kernel/sound but, as I said, I cannot convert the above information into a driver name. I hope this is enough information for someone to point me in a direction..... Thanks! $ lsmod Module Size Used by edd 9664 0 ppdev 9183 0 parport_pc 37259 0 parport 40234 2 ppdev,parport_pc nfsd 330828 9 nfs 363192 0 lockd 82143 2 nfsd,nfs fscache 55451 1 nfs nfs_acl 3107 2 nfsd,nfs auth_rpcgss 49071 2 nfsd,nfs sunrpc 251559 18 nfsd,nfs,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss exportfs 4523 1 nfsd fuse 80767 3 af_packet 23463 0 bridge 91576 1 stp 2299 1 bridge llc 6269 2 bridge,stp binfmt_misc 8603 1 mperf 1555 0 raid1 24052 1 dm_mod 86272 0 usblp 13705 0 joydev 12166 0 nvidia 10286158 55 uvcvideo 70281 0 shpchp 31135 0 videodev 81448 1 uvcvideo v4l1_compat 17505 2 uvcvideo,videodev sr_mod 16781 0 cdrom 43280 1 sr_mod edac_core 50847 0 v4l2_compat_ioctl32 10573 1 videodev sg 33426 0 pci_hotplug 32310 1 shpchp wmi 11161 0 pcspkr 2190 0 firewire_ohci 31271 0 firewire_core 65247 1 firewire_ohci forcedeth 58865 0 floppy 68461 0 i2c_nforce2 6851 0 edac_mce_amd 12166 0 k10temp 3543 0 crc_itu_t 1779 1 firewire_core video 15929 0 button 6829 0 asus_atk0110 15752 0 ext4 398026 3 jbd2 91654 1 ext4 crc16 1747 1 ext4 fan 3215 0 processor 39669 0 ata_generic 3995 0 thermal 14914 0 thermal_sys 17462 4 video,fan,processor,thermal pata_amd 12698 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user