Last night, I migrated my laptop to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake as I mentioned yesterday. Just to note that my laptop is not linux friendly in anyway. Sound works fine but connecting to external CRT or projector doesn't work and there is no solution right now. Unfortunately, I really want this capability so I decided to exchange my laptop with one of my wife. It is BenQ S52-M36. Cool! Everything seems to work just fine so I installed Dapper last night. As a result, now I have almost my works running on Ubuntu including this post. Sadly I could just here the sound of silent. ALSA does detect the sound device and the driver is loaded successfully but no sound at all. This seems to be serious problem soon since I would like to use my laptop to talk to my colleages. By the way, this problem is not only for me. It has been posted at ALSA project for so long. What should I do? I am waiting for some hope. Maybe I should try usb sound device.