On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:21:44PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > I am not sure. 4 W power consumption of a sound chip sounds quite a lot > to me. Additionally as written above please try a newer version. That's many orders of magnitude more than is sane unless there's very loud sound coming out of the speakers. Something beyond the audio specific hardware must be impacting the numbers.