I do not get any sound on my Asus Notebook A3811NUP running Suse 9.3 and KDE 3.4. Sound Hardware: buran:/etc/init.d # lspci | grep Audio 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) Kernel: buran:/etc/init.d # uname -a Linux buran 2.6.11.4-20a-default #1 Wed Mar 23 21:52:37 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux /var/log/messages/: Oct 7 18:52:23 buran kernel: ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0.c:585: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x700300] Oct 7 18:52:23 buran kernel: ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0.c:613: codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c .. Sound Modules: buran:/etc/init.d # lspci | grep Audio 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) The sound is not muted. I get sound occasionally when I test the sound in the KDE control center but I then sound does not work when I use an application like Krecord or amarok. When I switch off the sound in the KDE control center then I sometines get sound in Krecord. Seems like the applications are fighting to get hold of the soundcard and then block all other applications. Can you please tell me how to fix the problem? Thank you!