Hi Flo, > The audio devices in many notebooks are a bit problematic. Yeah.. I guess so. Although I guess external usb devices should be ok. > Please let us see the output of > > lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d9 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: <access denied> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d9 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 Memory at f7f00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] I/O ports at ec00 [size=8] Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at f7ec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Capabilities: <access denied> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d9 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at f7f80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82a1 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 Memory at f7eb8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0 Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: fbf00000-fbffffff Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: f8000000-fbefffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f6ffffff Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d8 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3 I/O ports at e400 [size=32] 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d8 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7 I/O ports at e480 [size=32] 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d8 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 I/O ports at e800 [size=32] 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d8 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 I/O ports at e880 [size=32] 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d8 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3 Memory at f7eb7c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32 Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d8 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d8 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7 I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8] I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1] I/O ports at 0170 [size=8] I/O ports at 0374 [size=1] I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16] Capabilities: <access denied> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82d8 Flags: medium devsel I/O ports at 0400 [size=32] 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5007EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 1a3b:1026 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter (rev a0) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8233 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at fbfc0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Expansion ROM at fbfa0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> > cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 3252114 XT-PIC-XT timer 1: 44971 XT-PIC-XT i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade 3: 178743 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5 5: 451891 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb4, HDA Intel, i915@pci:0000:00:02.0, pciehp 7: 23 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb2 9: 68641 XT-PIC-XT acpi 10: 1638393 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb3, pciehp, wifi0 11: 3 XT-PIC-XT eth0, pciehp 12: 887680 XT-PIC-XT i8042 14: 0 XT-PIC-XT libata 15: 44113 XT-PIC-XT libata NMI: 0 ERR: 0 > and also what distro do you have installed? what kernel? It comes pre-installed with a customised Xandros distro. The Kernel seems to be a 2.6.x. Thanks for any help Marc _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user