read about the sound at this sight: http://www.linuxlogin.com/hardware/dv6575us.php#sources Onboard HD Audio The onboard audio is an Intel HD Audio ICH8 Family card. While the alsa driver in Linux 2.6.22 does detect and appear to run with the snd_hda_intel driver, no sound comes from the speakers. The patches for Alsa are already out but not in the main kernel trunk yet. Until then, use a patched external module driver. For Gentoo, emerge alsa-driver-9999 and patch with two files found in the below non-Gentoo Sources section. cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xf8500000 irq 23 head -n5 /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 Codec: Realtek ALC268 Address: 0 Vendor Id: 0x10ec0268 Subsystem Id: 0x103c30cc Revision Id: 0x100003 with this information tell me exactly what I have to do to get sound on my HP? --------------------------------- Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows on Yahoo! TV.