Here are the values collected from https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/42718/comments/11 For 2) I have no result - no idea how to perform or produce an amixer output (no instructions found how to do this) - BTW, I run the german versions of Ubuntu and Audacity. Those are the results: Mixers: 0: Analog Devices AD1980 3) lspci -nv 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2560 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1043:80b2 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: 00:01.0 0604: 8086:2561 (rev 02) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: f3000000-f3dfffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f3f00000-f7ffffff 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1043:8089 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185 I/O ports at b800 [size=32] 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1043:8089 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 193 I/O ports at b400 [size=32] 00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1043:8089 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177 I/O ports at b000 [size=32] 00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 02) (prog-if 20) Subsystem: 1043:8089 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 201 Memory at f2800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev 82) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff Memory behind bridge: f1800000-f27fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f3e00000-f3efffff 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24c0 (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24cb (rev 02) (prog-if 8a) Subsystem: 1043:8089 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177 I/O ports at I/O ports at I/O ports at I/O ports at I/O ports at f000 [size=16] Memory at 50000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] 00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1043:80b0 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 217 I/O ports at 9800 [size=256] I/O ports at 9400 [size=64] Memory at f1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory at f0800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:5446 Subsystem: 174b:7106 Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 185 Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Expansion ROM at f3fe0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: 02:05.0 0200: 14e4:4401 (rev 01) Subsystem: 1043:80a8 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 209 Memory at f2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: 02:0e.0 0200: 1022:2000 (rev 16) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 177 I/O ports at a800 [size=32] Memory at f1800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32] [virtual] Expansion ROM at f3e00000 [disabled] [size=64K] 4) asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: I82801DBICH4 5) cat /etc/asound.conf ~/.asoundrc* cat: /etc/asound.conf: No such file or directory cat: /home/ta18/.asoundrc*: No such file or directory 6) dmesg [17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.17-10-generic (root@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)) #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 18:45:35 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-10.33-generic) [17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffec000 (usable) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000003ffec000 - 000000003ffef000 (ACPI data) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000003ffef000 - 000000003ffff000 (reserved) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000003ffff000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [17179569.184000] 127MB HIGHMEM available. [17179569.184000] 896MB LOWMEM available. [17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 262124 [17179569.184000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0 [17179569.184000] Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31 [17179569.184000] HighMem zone: 32748 pages, LIFO batch:7 [17179569.184000] DMI 2.3 present. [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f52e0 [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS P4PE 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3ffec000 [17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS P4PE 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3ffec0c0 [17179569.184000] ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS P4PE 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3ffec030 [17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS P4PE 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3ffec058 [17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS P4PE 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000 [17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408 [17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) [17179569.184000] Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20 [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) [17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) [17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 [17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl edge) [17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 22 low level) [17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. [17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. [17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs [17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information [17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000) [17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists [17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash [17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) [17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) [17179569.184000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [17179569.184000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0 [17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) [17179569.184000] Detected 2539.355 MHz processor. [17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource [17179569.184000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [17179571.768000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [17179571.768000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [17179571.800000] Memory: 1029508k/1048496k available (1910k kernel code, 18332k reserved, 1070k data, 308k init, 130992k highmem) [17179571.800000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [17179571.880000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5083.88 BogoMIPS (lpj=10167771) [17179571.880000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [17179571.880000] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [17179571.880000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [17179571.880000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000 [17179571.880000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000 [17179571.880000] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K [17179571.880000] CPU: L2 cache: 512K [17179571.880000] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled [17179571.880000] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000400 00000000 00000000 [17179571.880000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [17179571.896000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [17179571.896000] Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed [17179571.896000] checking if image is initramfs... it is [17179572.404000] Freeing initrd memory: 5563k freed [17179572.404000] ACPI: Core revision 20060707 [17179572.404000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found! [17179572.404000] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz stepping 07 [17179572.404000] Total of 1 processors activated (5083.88 BogoMIPS). [17179572.408000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs [17179572.408000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [17179572.548000] Brought up 1 CPUs [17179572.548000] migration_cost=0 [17179572.548000] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [17179572.548000] EISA bus registered [17179572.548000] ACPI: bus type pci registered [17179572.548000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1e50, last bus=2 [17179572.548000] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [17179572.548000] Setting up standard PCI resources [17179572.552000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled [17179572.552000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing [17179572.552000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) [17179572.552000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) [17179572.552000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) [17179572.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) [17179572.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) [17179572.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. [17179572.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. [17179572.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) [17179572.556000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) [17179572.556000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) [17179572.556000] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0 [17179572.560000] PCI quirk: region e400-e47f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO [17179572.560000] PCI quirk: region ec00-ec3f claimed by ICH4 GPIO [17179572.560000] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 [17179572.560000] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 [17179572.560000] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 [17179572.560000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] [17179572.560000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT] [17179572.560000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2._PRT] [17179572.568000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [17179572.568000] pnp: PnP ACPI init [17179572.576000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 16 devices [17179572.576000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [17179572.576000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [17179572.576000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report [17179572.584000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xe400-0xe47f could not be reserved [17179572.584000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xe800-0xe81f has been reserved [17179572.584000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xec00-0xec3f has been reserved [17179572.584000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved [17179572.584000] pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved [17179572.584000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 [17179572.584000] IO window: d000-dfff [17179572.584000] MEM window: f3000000-f3dfffff [17179572.584000] PREFETCH window: f3f00000-f7ffffff [17179572.584000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 [17179572.584000] IO window: a000-afff [17179572.584000] MEM window: f1800000-f27fffff [17179572.584000] PREFETCH window: f3e00000-f3efffff [17179572.584000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 [17179572.584000] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [17179572.624000] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [17179572.624000] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [17179572.624000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [17179572.624000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) [17179572.624000] TCP reno registered [17179572.624000] Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x1 [17179572.624000] * This chipset may have PM-Timer Bug. Due to workarounds for a bug, [17179572.624000] * this time source is slow. If you are sure your timer does not have [17179572.624000] * this bug, please use "pmtmr_good" to disable the workaround [17179572.624000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [17179572.624000] audit(1165676243.624:1): initialized [17179572.624000] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages [17179572.624000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [17179572.624000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [17179572.624000] Initializing Cryptographic API [17179572.624000] io scheduler noop registered [17179572.624000] io scheduler anticipatory registered [17179572.624000] io scheduler deadline registered [17179572.624000] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [17179572.624000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [17179572.980000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [17179573.008000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac [17179573.008000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [17179573.008000] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [17179573.008000] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [17179573.008000] 00:0a: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [17179573.008000] 00:0b: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [17179573.008000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [17179573.008000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [17179573.008000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 [17179573.008000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [17179573.008000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [17179573.012000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [17179573.012000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [17179573.012000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [17179573.012000] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [17179573.012000] TCP bic registered [17179573.012000] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [17179573.012000] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [17179573.012000] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [17179573.012000] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [17179573.012000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) [17179573.012000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 308k freed [17179573.060000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 [17179574.152000] Capability LSM initialized [17179574.192000] ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [5] [17179574.192000] ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0693): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] [17179574.192000] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x1 [17179574.696000] ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 [17179574.696000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 [17179574.696000] ICH4: chipset revision 2 [17179574.696000] ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later [17179574.696000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA [17179574.696000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio [17179574.696000] Probing IDE interface ide0... [17179574.984000] hda: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive [17179575.432000] hdb: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1912, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [17179575.488000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 [17179575.492000] Probing IDE interface ide1... [17179576.064000] hda: max request size: 128KiB [17179576.076000] hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) [17179576.076000] hda: cache flushes not supported [17179576.076000] hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > [17179576.132000] hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) [17179576.132000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [17179576.404000] Probing IDE interface ide1... [17179576.440000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs [17179576.440000] usbcore: registered new driver hub [17179576.444000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 [17179576.444000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 [17179576.444000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 [17179576.444000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller [17179576.444000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [17179576.444000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 185, io base 0x0000b800 [17179576.448000] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [17179576.448000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [17179576.448000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [17179576.552000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 [17179576.552000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 [17179576.552000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller [17179576.552000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 [17179576.552000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 193, io base 0x0000b400 [17179576.552000] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [17179576.552000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found [17179576.552000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [17179576.656000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 [17179576.656000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 [17179576.656000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller [17179576.656000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 [17179576.656000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 177, io base 0x0000b000 [17179576.656000] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [17179576.656000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found [17179576.656000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [17179576.760000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 [17179576.760000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 [17179576.760000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller [17179576.760000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 [17179576.760000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1 [17179576.760000] PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 [17179576.760000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 201, io mem 0xf2800000 [17179576.764000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 [17179576.764000] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [17179576.764000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found [17179576.764000] hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected [17179577.028000] Attempting manual resume [17179577.068000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [17179577.068000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [17179589.200000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 [17179589.220000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 [17179589.264000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M [17179589.284000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 [17179589.316000] hw_random: RNG not detected [17179589.912000] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 [17179590.020000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. [17179590.020000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] [17179590.052000] pcnet32.c:v1.32 18.Mar.2006