Hello medwinz, thanks for your tip. At a first glance just updating the alsa packages did not improve anything. After some try and error activities I finally had sound with the shipped kernel :-) Then I rebooted and sound was gone again :-( After some more try and error I found out that sound is not really gone after rebooting (I checked that from the textconsole and speaker-test) but after starting KDE 4.2 (maybe also after starting KDE 4.1???). To get sound back it is not sufficient to restart alsa alone (via /etc/init.d/alsasound restart) but I also had to change the model specified in /etc/modprobe.d/sound (e.g. between 'laptop', 'dell-m4-1' or 'dell-m4-2'). Finally, I had to adjust the levels in the alsamixer to get sound working again. I guess KDE 4.2 is messing up alsa somehow, I will further dig into that direction ... Ciao, Fabian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org