Im running Intrepid and have alsa installed on a sony vaio. it has just an intel on board sound card. Long story short, the sound works great except the sound card only pays attention to one application at a time, for example if rythmbox is open, and then you pull up youtube, you only get sound from rythmbox (or whichever application is opened first). Secondly, the sound gradient is slightly messed up. when turning down the volume, when the bar is half way down, the volume is completely off. so 100% of the volume is in 50% of the bar, the other half of the gradient does nothing. is anyone else having these issues or have any ideas to fix them. thanks.