Please, by all means be as anal as you like :) - here are the requested outputs: [1] Mixers: 0: Realtek ALC262 [2] Amixer Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Mono: Front Left: Playback [on] Front Right: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] Simple mixer control 'Front',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 31 Front Left: Capture 19 [61%] [off] Front Right: Capture 19 [61%] [off] Simple mixer control 'Capture',1 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 31 Front Left: Capture 16 [52%] [off] Front Right: Capture 16 [52%] [off] Simple mixer control 'Capture',2 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 31 Front Left: Capture 17 [55%] [off] Front Right: Capture 17 [55%] [off] Simple mixer control 'Caller ID',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: enum Items: 'Front Mic' 'Line' Item0: 'Front Mic' Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1 Capabilities: enum Items: 'Front Mic' 'Line' Item0: 'Front Mic' Simple mixer control 'Input Source',2 Capabilities: enum Items: 'Front Mic' 'Line' Item0: 'Front Mic' Simple mixer control 'Off-hook',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0 Capabilities: pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Mono: Front Left: Playback [on] Front Right: Playback [on] [3] lspci -nv 00:00.0 0600: 8086:27a0 (rev 03) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:27a2 (rev 03) Subsystem: 1179:0005 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 233 Memory at ffd80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] I/O ports at cff8 [size=8] Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at ffd40000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Capabilities: 00:02.1 0380: 8086:27a6 (rev 03) Subsystem: 1179:0005 Flags: fast devsel Memory at 55000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512K] Capabilities: 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 58 Memory at 55080000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 02) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff Memory behind bridge: ffc00000-ffcfffff Capabilities: 00:1c.2 0604: 8086:27d4 (rev 02) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: ffa00000-ffafffff Capabilities: 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225 I/O ports at afe0 [size=32] 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 217 I/O ports at af80 [size=32] 00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 02) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177 I/O ports at af60 [size=32] 00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 02) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 233 I/O ports at af40 [size=32] 00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 02) (prog-if 20) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225 Memory at ffd3fc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev e2) (prog-if 01) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=07, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff Memory behind bridge: 52000000-54ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000050000000-0000000051f00000 Capabilities: 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27b9 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:27c4 (rev 02) (prog-if 80) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 217 I/O ports at I/O ports at I/O ports at I/O ports at I/O ports at af10 [size=16] Capabilities: 01:00.0 0200: 8086:109a Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 233 Memory at ffce0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] I/O ports at bfe0 [size=32] Capabilities: 02:00.0 0280: 8086:4222 (rev 02) Subsystem: 8086:1041 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177 Memory at ffaff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: 03:0b.0 0607: 104c:8039 Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 185 Memory at 54004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=03, secondary=04, subordinate=07, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 50000000-51fff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 52000000-53fff000 I/O window 0: 00001000-000010ff I/O window 1: 00001400-000014ff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 03:0b.1 0c00: 104c:803a (prog-if 10) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 50 Memory at 54005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Memory at 54000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: 03:0b.3 0805: 104c:803c (prog-if 01) Subsystem: 1179:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 225 Memory at 54005800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [4] asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: Intel [5] cat /etc/asound.conf ~/.asoundrc* cat: /etc/asound.conf: No such file or directory cat: /home/steve/.asoundrc*: No such file or directory [6] dmesg Gives a seemingly endless list of: [17186370.596000 (second number varies)] APIC error on CPU1: 40(40) [7] cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 3189001 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 24538 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 32 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 1084 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 297335 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 31958 0 IO-APIC-edge libata 15: 90305 0 IO-APIC-edge libata 50: 3 0 IO-APIC-level ohci1394 58: 15427 0 IO-APIC-level HDA Intel 177: 412360 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3, ipw3945 185: 1 0 IO-APIC-level yenta 217: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb2 225: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5, sdhci:slot0 233: 1048047 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb4, eth0, i915@pci:0000:00:02.0 NMI: 0 0 LOC: 3188832 3188831 ERR: 1118 MIS: 0