Here is the info that the link you provided asked me to give. ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ aplay --list-devices **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC861 Analog [ALC861 Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ lspci -vvnn | grep Audio 00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio [1002:437b] (rev 01) ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat Mixers: 0: Realtek ALC861 Simple mixer control 'Master',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%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0 Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Capture channels: Mono Mono: Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Capture channels: Mono Mono: Capture [on] Simple mixer control 'CD',0 Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Capture channels: Mono Mono: Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 23 Mono: Capture [off] Front Left: Playback 21 [91%] [27.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 21 [91%] [27.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 13 Front Left: Capture 13 [100%] [33.00dB] [on] Front Right: Capture 13 [100%] [33.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Mixer',0 Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Capture channels: Mono Mono: Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Caller ID',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Off-hook',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [off] ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: SB ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ cat /etc/asound.conf ~/.asoundrc* cat: /etc/asound.conf: No such file or directory cat: /home/ryan/.asoundrc*: No such file or directory ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ dmesg > /home/ryan/Desktop/dmesg.txt #included as attachment ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 3186779 local-APIC-edge-fasteoi timer 1: 22758 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 3 IO-APIC-edge rtc 12: 11823 IO-APIC-edge i8042 15: 242246 IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi yenta 17: 55786 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_sil 18: 389177 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb3 19: 64890 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel 20: 368651 IO-APIC-fasteoi wifi0, eth0 21: 94 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 22: 1817658 IO-APIC-fasteoi fglrx NMI: 0 LOC: 1775967 ERR: 0 MIS: 0