Hi, Thanks for sharing your tip. /sbin/service alsasound stop/start gives the same results on my notebook. I still do not have a master volume (or any other change in sliders in alsamixer). JeeBee. > Sometimes I have noticed that just using /etc/init.d/alsasound > start/stop gives the "in use" errors, but you might try > > $ /sbin/service alsasound stop > $ /sbin/service alsasound start
