Kernel 2.6.24.12 didn't come wtih the sound card (Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller) driver of my computer

[Wang Jun]

Ubuntu-desktop Hardy alpha 6 with kernel 2.6.24.12-generic didn't come with the driver of
Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller.

"Error While Initializing the sound driver
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No sucho file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device" and so.

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This is the output of `uname -a`:
Linux wangjun.ac 2.6.24-12-generic #1 SMP Fri Feb 29 22:08:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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This is the output of `hwinfo`:
21: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device
  [Created at pci.296]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27d8
  Unique ID: u1Nb.yrj37ep9RaD
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
  Hardware Class: sound
  Model: "Lenovo 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x27d8 "82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo"
  SubDevice: pci 0x302a
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "HDA Intel"
  Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
  Memory Range: 0xfbffc000-0xfbffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 16 (322941 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027D8sv000017AAsd0000302Abc04sc03i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

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This is the output of `lspci -v && lsmod`:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
 Memory behind bridge: fc000000-feafffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at fbffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
 I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
 I/O ports at d880 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
 I/O ports at d800 [size=32]

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 I/O ports at d480 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
 Memory at fbffbc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
 I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
 Memory behind bridge: feb00000-febfffff
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
 I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
 I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
 I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
 I/O ports at d400 [size=8]
 I/O ports at d080 [size=4]
 I/O ports at d000 [size=8]
 I/O ports at cc00 [size=4]
 I/O ports at c880 [size=16]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
 I/O ports at 0400 [size=32]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100 GS (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Unknown device 1642:3598
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at feae0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
 Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 302a
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
 I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
 Memory at febffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

Module Size Used by
ppdev 10372 0
acpi_cpufreq 10796 1
cpufreq_stats 7104 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9740 1
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_userspace 5284 0
cpufreq_conservative 8712 0
freq_table 5536 3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
sbs 15112 0
sbshc 7680 1 sbs
video 20112 0
output 4736 1 video
ac 6916 0
container 5632 0
dock 11280 0
battery 14212 0
iptable_filter 3840 0
ip_tables 14820 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16132 1 ip_tables
lp 12324 0
ipv6 267780 30
snd_hda_intel 342680 3
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 42144 0
snd_pcm 78596 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
nvidia 7825536 34
i2c_core 24832 1 nvidia
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 17 snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
button 9232 0
intel_agp 25492 0
agpgart 34760 2 nvidia,intel_agp
evdev 13056 3
shpchp 34452 0
pci_hotplug 30880 1 shpchp
soundcore 8800 1 snd
parport_pc 36260 1
parport 37832 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
iTCO_wdt 13092 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4868 1 iTCO_wdt
pcspkr 4224 0
ext3 136712 2
jbd 48404 1 ext3
mbcache 9600 1 ext3
usbhid 31744 0
hid 38528 1 usbhid
sg 36880 0
sr_mod 17956 0
sd_mod 30720 9
cdrom 37408 1 sr_mod
pata_acpi 8320 0
ata_piix 19588 8
8139too 27520 0
ata_generic 8324 0
libata 159344 3 pata_acpi,ata_piix,ata_generic
scsi_mod 151436 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
8139cp 24704 0
mii 6400 2 8139too,8139cp
ehci_hcd 37004 0
uhci_hcd 27024 0
usbcore 145516 4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal 16796 0
processor 36872 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
fan 5636 0
fuse 50580 11
vesafb 8964 1
fbcon 42912 72
tileblit 3456 1 fbcon
font 9472 1 fbcon
bitblit 6784 1 fbcon
softcursor 3072 1 bitblit
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confirm same on my thinkpad t61p