I too have some problems with alsa on my Z60m Thinpad, similar to what Jaroslaw Gorny.
When i boot my laptop, it sometimes hangs on attempting to load alsa. It happens randomly, sometimes it starts normal, sound ok, everything perfect. Sometimes it hangs on loading alsa modules, it just hangs on :: loading snd-card-0. by mistake i found out that i can skip this by hitting ctrl+print screen. Then, i keep getting these messages in my syslog:: Jul 19 13:22:31 newroot ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 newroot printk: 11 messages suppressed. newroot azx_get_response timeout Some details on my hardware/software: IBM thinkpad Z60m, 2531w25, Linux newroot 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 #1 PREEMPT Mon Jul 17 22:50:07 EEST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz GNU/Linux. Related lspci section:: newroot ~ # lspci -vv -s 00:1b.0 00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 05b7 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0 Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag- Device: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes Link: Supported Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Port 0 Link: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us Link: ASPM Disabled CommClk- ExtSynch- Link: Speed unknown, Width x0 Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5) im using alsa-utils-1.0.11 the related kernel config section CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SND=m CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m CONFIG_SND_PCM=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m Also recently, volume was low, even when mixer settings were upto max. This a great laptop i have, too bad about hardware support on Linux, i cant use all its features properly. I also have some problems with Xorg DRI. Any help appreciated Greets -Naim ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user