Hi, Finally, I've got sound from Intel HD Audio, through default card=0 ! I recently bought H97 motherboard and i3-4170, because I couldn't afford electricity for my 125W AMD 8-core and overheating motherboard. According to my calculation, i3 will pay for itself in a year. Everything was ok, except sound. On this H97 board, the default card=0 is HDMI, and audio ports are card=1. - I got KDE making notification sound by changing precedence order in "phonon" setting. - I managed to get 'mplayer' playing on card=1 by ao=alsa:device=hw=1.0 and 'aplay' playing on card=1 by -D default:PCH Still, YouTube or Flash played video, but no sound. Installing discrete sound card would not help, because that would only become card=2. I was about to go back to the AMD block heater, when accidental click lead me to a solution. Solution was ~/.asoundrc pcm.!default { type hw card 1 } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 } Now, I've got sound from default card=1, without those funky configuration settings. -- William