I changed my laptop (the old one died yesterday). I am running Fedora from a USB HD, so it was easy to restart. Now I am struggling only with sound (actually no sound) Chips is 82801H (ICH8 family) This is my modprobe.conf options snd-intel8x0 index=0 remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0 alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0 alias eth0 tg3 If I run soundcard configuration tool I find that module should be snd-hda-intel and this is my lsmod output: /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by snd_intel8x0 36061 0 snd_ac97_codec 96613 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 6465 1 snd_ac97_codec michael_mic 6593 2 arc4 6209 2 ecb 7617 2 blkcipher 10437 1 ecb ieee80211_crypt_tkip 14401 1 aes 31617 1 ieee80211_crypt_ccmp 10817 1 i915 27073 2 drm 80085 3 i915 autofs4 24773 2 hidp 26689 2 rfcomm 44377 0 l2cap 30401 10 hidp,rfcomm bluetooth 57893 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap sunrpc 161981 1 ipv6 277957 32 cpufreq_ondemand 12237 1 acpi_cpufreq 14537 1 dm_multipath 21961 0 video 21065 0 sbs 22729 0 button 12113 0 dock 13921 0 battery 14149 0 ac 9285 0 sr_mod 20837 1 cdrom 37089 1 sr_mod ata_generic 11589 0 snd_hda_intel 243545 2 snd_seq_dummy 7877 0 snd_seq_oss 33473 0 snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 50609 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 11981 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 43457 0 snd_mixer_oss 19521 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 74949 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24901 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm ata_piix 18757 1 snd 53317 12 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer ahci 25541 0 i2c_i801 12369 0 i2c_core 27841 1 i2c_i801 firewire_ohci 20801 0 soundcore 11681 2 snd iwl3945 161061 0 libata 117937 3 ata_generic,ata_piix,ahci mac80211 144081 1 iwl3945 cfg80211 13257 1 mac80211 sdhci 20941 0 firewire_core 43137 1 firewire_ohci snd_page_alloc 13769 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm crc_itu_t 6337 1 firewire_core mmc_core 30149 1 sdhci ipw3945 188576 1 tg3 104901 0 ieee80211 35593 1 ipw3945 rtc_cmos 12001 0 ieee80211_crypt 10049 3 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211_crypt_ccmp,ieee80211 sg 37469 0 dm_snapshot 20709 0 dm_zero 6209 0 dm_mirror 25153 0 dm_mod 56833 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror usb_storage 76673 2 sd_mod 31297 3 scsi_mod 140749 5 sr_mod,libata,sg,usb_storage,sd_mod ext3 125513 2 jbd 59881 1 ext3 mbcache 12485 1 ext3 ehci_hcd 35405 0 ohci_hcd 23877 0 uhci_hcd 27089 0 I am confused...I guess that something is wrong, but where??? Tnx -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag