I wrote this on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489828 I've used the driver of kernel package. And Mr. Jaroslav Kysela replied me that I could try snapshot source. (Thx, Mr. Jaroslav Kysela. And on #alsa on Freenode, Thingol and gnubien advised me much. Thank you!) But I couldn't get sound back none of both: stable(alsa-driver-1.0.19) and snapshot (alsa-driver-1.0.19.34.g70f78.363.g0ec3b). My alsa info is on http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=af6a6e787d4bd5212bf766bf5d09fda1ab5e2300 I use desktop. Its mother board is GA-MA69H-S3H . The soundcard is onboard. Realtek ALC889A Audio Codec. # lspci |grep -i "multi|audio|040[0-3]" # Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia (Intel HDA) When I installed stable release of alsa-driver --with-debug=verbose , dmesg says HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ALSA /home/emmanuel/Softwares/alsa-driver-1.0.19/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:2218: chipset global capabilities = 0x4401 ALSA /home/emmanuel/Softwares/alsa-driver-1.0.19/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:786: codec_mask = 0x8 ALSA /home/emmanuel/Softwares/alsa-driver-1.0.19/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1214: hda_intel: codec #3 probed OK ALSA /home/emmanuel/Softwares/alsa-driver-1.0.19/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:788: hda_codec: no AFG or MFG node found ALSA /home/emmanuel/Softwares/alsa-driver-1.0.19/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1298: hda-intel: no codecs initialized HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A disabled