Dear List, <br>After some googling around without any results, I&#39;m quite puzzled. Since some past update I can&#39;t precise, kernel 2.6.164 works fine, however 2.6.194 has some sound problem in my somewhat old and beaten Toshiba laptop. <br>

<br>-Audacious plays OK but other applications have problems. <br>
-For instance, mplayer acts quirky: when I pause a playing video, sound keeps stuttering endlessly. The same happens sometimes when I close mplayer window.<br>-system-config-soundcard detects the card and starts to play sample but stuttering all the way, repeating every 4th of a second or so some 16 times, at about a 1/2 second rate.<br>


-Youtube has no sound!<br>-Software volume control has been lost long ago, unrelated to this problem but interested in recovery anyway<br clear="all"><br>System is fully up to date. Any hints will be appreciated!<br><br>

Some relevant lines in my /etc/modprobe.conf as is now, with some scars left after unfruitful battles:<br>alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel<br>
#options snd-card-0 index=0  <br>#options snd-hda-intel index=0  <br>remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel<br>options snd-hda-intel model=auto<br>


options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1<br>options snd cards_limit=8<br><br>getinfo.sh output:<br><br>== BEGIN uname -rmi ==<br>2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 i686 i386<br>== END   uname -rmi ==<br><br>== BEGIN rpm -q centos-release ==<br>


centos-release-5-5.el5.centos<br>== END   rpm -q centos-release ==<br><br>== BEGIN getenforce ==<br>Disabled<br>== END   getenforce ==<br><br>== BEGIN rpm -qa kernel\* | sort ==<br>kernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5<br>kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5<br>


kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5<br>kernel-devel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5<br>kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5<br>kernel-devel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5<br>kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5<br>== END   rpm -qa kernel\* | sort ==<br><br>== BEGIN lspci ==<br>


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Proces<br>sor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)<br>00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root P<br>ort (rev 03)<br>00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High<br>


 Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)<br>00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Ex<br>press Port 1 (rev 04)<br>00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Ex<br>


press Port 2 (rev 04)<br>00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US<br>B UHCI #1 (rev 04)<br>00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US<br>B UHCI #2 (rev 04)<br>


00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US<br>B UHCI #3 (rev 04)<br>00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US<br>B UHCI #4 (rev 04)<br>00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US<br>


B2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)<br>00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)<br>00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev<br> 04)<br>00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 0<br>


4)<br>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 [Radeon Mobility X60<br>0]<br>02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Et<br>hernet Controller (rev 10)<br>06:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Ne<br>


twork Connection (rev 05)<br>06:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller<br>06:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394<br> Host Controller<br>06:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader<br>


 (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)<br>06:06.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD <br>Host Controller<br>== END   lspci ==<br><br>== BEGIN lspci -n ==<br>00:00.0 0600: 8086:2590 (rev 03)<br>00:01.0 0604: 8086:2591 (rev 03)<br>


00:1b.0 0403: 8086:2668 (rev 04)<br>00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 04)<br>00:1c.1 0604: 8086:2662 (rev 04)<br>00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 04)<br>00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 04)<br>00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 04)<br>00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 04)<br>


00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 04)<br>00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev d4)<br>00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2641 (rev 04)<br>00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2653 (rev 04)<br>01:00.0 0300: 1002:5462<br>02:00.0 0200: 11ab:4351 (rev 10)<br>06:04.0 0280: 8086:4220 (rev 05)<br>


06:06.0 0607: 104c:8039<br>06:06.1 0c00: 104c:803a<br>06:06.2 0180: 104c:803b<br>06:06.3 0805: 104c:803c<br>== END   lspci -n ==<br><br><br>-- <br>Eduardo Grosclaude<br>Universidad Nacional del Comahue<br>Neuquen, Argentina<br>