Comment 7 for bug 149722

I can confirm this on my inspiron 6k laptop. Really annoying that I can't use my media keys!
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pck@pck-iron:~$ lspci -n | grep `lspci | grep Audio | awk '{print $1}'`
00:1e.2 0401: 8086:266e (rev 03)
pck@pck-iron:~$ uname -a
Linux pck-iron 2.6.24-15-generic #1 SMP Tue Apr 8 00:33:51 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
pck@pck-iron:~$ aplay --list-devices
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pck@pck-iron:~$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
pck@pck-iron:~$ lsmod |grep ^snd
snd_intel8x0 35356 4
snd_ac97_codec 101028 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 42144 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78596 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
snd_rawmidi 25760 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9612 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 56996 16 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
pck@pck-iron:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
                      Intel ICH6 with STAC9752,53 at irq 16