Hi all, I have some puzzling sound problems on my Dell Inspiron 2650. It was working fine using ALSA - then I installed the driver for the modem and now the sound is not working. (The modem seems to work fine on the rare occasions I use it.) There is a conflict somewhere, I suspect, but I am not knowledgeable enough to even find it, much less fix it. There does not appear to be an IRQ conflict, but that's all I know how to check for. I'm not sure exactly what I did with the modem install but I suspect that to be the cause of my problem. I don't know where to proceed from here, though. Thanks for any help!! Here's relevant information: modprobe error: # modprobe snd-card-0 /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-default/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-default/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-default/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-default/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod snd-card-0 failed Here's the error in /var/log/messages: Jan 1 18:24:48 feanor kernel: ALSA intel8x0.c:1986: codec_ready: codec is not ready [0x300000] Jan 1 18:24:48 feanor kernel: Intel ICH soundcard not found or device busy #lsmod # lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P snd-pcm-oss 45472 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-pcm 65092 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-page-alloc 6004 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] snd-timer 15040 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] snd-mixer-oss 13400 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd 35172 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer-oss] soundcore 3588 0 (autoclean) [snd] videodev 5696 0 (autoclean) agpgart 42040 3 (autoclean) nvidia 1628608 12 (autoclean) isa-pnp 30664 0 (unused) usbserial 18620 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport_pc 26248 1 (autoclean) lp 6208 0 (autoclean) parport 22888 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] speedstep-ich 1584 0 (unused) speedstep-lib 1408 0 [speedstep-ich] ipv6 209952 -1 (autoclean) key 63256 0 (autoclean) [ipv6] nls_cp437 4348 4 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2812 4 (autoclean) thermal 6148 0 (unused) smbfs 36912 4 (autoclean) processor 8248 0 [thermal] fan 1472 0 (unused) button 2380 0 (unused) battery 5600 0 (unused) ac 1664 0 (unused) prism2_cs 61808 2 p80211 18404 0 [prism2_cs] ds 6668 1 [prism2_cs] yenta_socket 9760 1 pcmcia_core 43232 0 [prism2_cs ds yenta_socket] keybdev 1996 0 (unused) mousedev 4084 0 (unused) joydev 5120 0 (unused) evdev 3584 0 (unused) input 3360 0 [keybdev mousedev joydev evdev] usb-uhci 22224 0 (unused) usbcore 58668 1 [usbserial usb-uhci] raw1394 16592 0 (unused) ieee1394 183364 0 [raw1394] ide-cd 29664 0 (autoclean) cdrom 26752 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] dm-mod 42096 0 (unused) hsfich 95340 0 (autoclean) hsfserial 22516 0 (autoclean) hsfengine 868940 0 (autoclean) [hsfserial] hsfosspec 21984 0 (autoclean) [hsfich hsfserial hsfengine] reiserfs 199476 1 and /proc/interrupts: # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 7153905 XT-PIC timer 1: 10627 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 11732 XT-PIC prism2_cs 5: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc 9: 878 XT-PIC acpi 10: 429649 XT-PIC usb-uhci, O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller, nvidia 12: 90738 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 19033 XT-PIC ide0 15: 22589 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0