Howto diagnose sound problems?

[Clemens Eisserer]

> I think I've solved the problem here, at least it did not show up for a
> long time now. In my case, I have just commented out the line:
> options snd-hda-intel power_save=10
>
> in the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
>
> I think my battery will last less now, however. Well...

Thanks a lot for this useful tip.
I already changed it, quite curious what she reports.

Although I am afraid she will change back to Windows-XP anyway :-/
So Ubuntu guys, make Karmic a really rock-solid release, so I can
argue here to stay ^^

- Clemens