Hey Elimar, More information.
I have physically looked at the codec on the M/B. It (as best I can see it) is Realtek ALC889A. I found this document [1] that seemed they were working on the kernel to make some changes regarding this exact chip. In hopes that I would get a fix for the problem I have upgraded to kernel 2.6.27-1. I am also now running Sid (unstable). Neither of these changes have effected the sound. Although there are times that I can manage to get sound, it is never across reboots. It always takes some time after a reboot in order to get sound working. Maybe it is coincidence. Maybe it is some sort of timing issue. Always after some series of 'alsa force-reload; rmmod snd-hda-intel; modprobe -v snd-hda-intel'. Just so you are aware, there are two threads [2][3] on the Debian-users list regarding this issue. I posted there prior to opening this bug report. I believe I have given you all the same information (or more) that I posted there. I have not upgraded to the latest ALSA drivers yet. Still running the Sid version of drivers. Hopefully with all this information, you'll be able to help me resolve the issue. Thanks, Mike [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/11/267 [2] http://marc.info/?l=debian-user&m=123162467715214&w=2 [3] http://marc.info/?l=debian-user&m=123173290030716&w=2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org