update wrote: > options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 > options snd-hda-intel enable=0 index=1 > > the card numbers are swapped and the vol-keys are working. I had this also on one older Dell. your second line disables something at index 1 you should use if I recall correctly options snd-hda-intel enable=1,0 but this is not very nice workaround as you can not use hdmi (not a problem if you don't need it of course) regards