I have a HP Mini 1030 (writing to your from this computer now :)

I had experienced sound problems in the beginning - I never knew if my headset worked or not before doing this... but after the following steps everything works for me EXCEPT the external mic.  I'm not able to test the mic by way of the jack because I don't have the combo jack adapter thingy.

I only experienced one problem while compiling.

All of the following commands worked great!

[worked] cd ~
[worked] wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.19.tar.bz2
[worked] wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.19.tar.bz2
[worked] wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.19.tar.bz2

[worked] tar xjf alsa-driver-1.0.19.tar.bz2
[worked] tar xjf alsa-lib-1.0.19.tar.bz2
[worked] tar xjf alsa-utils-1.0.19.tar.bz2

[worked] cd alsa-driver-1.0.19
[worked] ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)
[worked] make
[worked] sudo make install
[worked] cd ..

[worked] cd alsa-lib-1.0.19
[worked] ./configure
[worked - had to install one or two things, I just did the sudo apt-get and installed the missing link on this one] make
[worked] sudo make install
[worked] cd ..

[worked] cd alsa-utils-1.0.19
[worked] ./configure
[failed] make
[failed] sudo make install

I'll paste my output below of this section of the compiling... perhaps this can help you... I don't know how to get around this problem as of yet.

filmer@hpFilmer:~$ cd alsa-utils-1.0.19/
filmer@hpFilmer:~/alsa-utils-1.0.19$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for cross-compiler... gcc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ALSA CFLAGS... 
checking for ALSA LDFLAGS...  -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread
checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.16... found.
checking for snd_ctl_open in -lasound... yes
checking for xmlto... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for ncurses5-config... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating alsactl/Makefile
config.status: creating alsactl/init/Makefile
config.status: creating alsamixer/Makefile
config.status: creating amidi/Makefile
config.status: creating amixer/Makefile
config.status: creating m4/Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating alsaconf/alsaconf
config.status: creating alsaconf/Makefile
config.status: creating alsaconf/po/Makefile
config.status: WARNING:  alsaconf/po/Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
config.status: creating aplay/Makefile
config.status: creating include/Makefile
config.status: creating iecset/Makefile
config.status: creating utils/Makefile
config.status: creating utils/alsa-utils.spec
config.status: creating seq/Makefile
config.status: creating seq/aconnect/Makefile
config.status: creating seq/aplaymidi/Makefile
config.status: creating seq/aseqdump/Makefile
config.status: creating seq/aseqnet/Makefile
config.status: creating speaker-test/Makefile
config.status: creating speaker-test/samples/Makefile
config.status: creating include/aconfig.h
config.status: include/aconfig.h is unchanged
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
filmer@hpFilmer:~/alsa-utils-1.0.19$ make
Making all in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/include'
make  all-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/include'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/include'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/include'
Making all in alsactl
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
Making all in init
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl/init'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl/init'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
Making all in alsaconf
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf/po'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf/po'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
Making all in alsamixer
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsamixer'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include    -DCURSESINC="<ncurses.h>" -g -O2 -MT alsamixer.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/alsamixer.Tpo" -c -o alsamixer.o alsamixer.c; \
	then mv -f ".deps/alsamixer.Tpo" ".deps/alsamixer.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/alsamixer.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
alsamixer.c:122:19: error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
alsamixer.c:180: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_init_draw_contexts’:
alsamixer.c:343: error: ‘COLOR_WHITE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:343: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
alsamixer.c:343: error: for each function it appears in.)
alsamixer.c:343: error: ‘A_BOLD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:343: error: ‘COLOR_BLACK’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:343: error: ‘A_NORMAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:344: error: ‘COLOR_YELLOW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:345: error: ‘COLOR_CYAN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:348: error: ‘COLOR_GREEN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:349: error: ‘COLOR_RED’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:351: error: ‘A_DIM’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:352: error: ‘COLOR_BLUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:352: error: ‘A_REVERSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:355: error: ‘ACS_CKBOARD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_clear’:
alsamixer.c:394: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:394: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_abort’:
alsamixer.c:409: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:411: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:413: error: ‘FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_cbar_get_pos’:
alsamixer.c:463: error: ‘FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:481: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘draw_volume_bar’:
alsamixer.c:825: error: ‘ACS_LTEE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:826: error: ‘ACS_RTEE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:828: error: ‘ACS_LLCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:829: error: ‘ACS_HLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:831: error: ‘ACS_LRCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:837: error: ‘ACS_VLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:855: error: ‘ACS_ULCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:858: error: ‘ACS_URCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘draw_playback_switch’:
alsamixer.c:866: error: ‘ACS_LLCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:867: error: ‘ACS_HLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:869: error: ‘ACS_LRCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:871: error: ‘ACS_VLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:874: error: ‘ACS_ULCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:877: error: ‘ACS_URCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_draw_frame’:
alsamixer.c:1209: error: ‘ACS_VLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1214: error: ‘ACS_HLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1220: error: ‘ACS_ULCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1221: error: ‘ACS_URCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1222: error: ‘ACS_LLCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1224: error: ‘ACS_LRCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_show_text’:
alsamixer.c:1418: error: ‘ACS_LRCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1419: error: ‘ACS_LLCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1420: error: ‘ACS_ULCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1421: error: ‘ACS_URCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1426: error: ‘ACS_VLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1428: error: ‘ACS_HLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1445: error: ‘ACS_CKBOARD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1446: error: ‘ACS_BLOCK’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1447: error: ‘ACS_BOARD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘recalc_screen_size’:
alsamixer.c:1650: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_init_window’:
alsamixer.c:1854: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1867: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_resize’:
alsamixer.c:1886: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1886: error: ‘FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_iteration’:
alsamixer.c:2010: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2026: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2031: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2035: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2037: error: ‘FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2045: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2055: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2077: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2088: error: ‘KEY_BTAB’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2091: error: ‘KEY_A1’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2095: error: ‘KEY_A3’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2099: error: ‘KEY_C1’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2103: error: ‘KEY_C3’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2107: error: ‘KEY_RIGHT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2111: error: ‘KEY_LEFT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2115: error: ‘KEY_UP’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2120: error: ‘KEY_DOWN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2125: error: ‘KEY_PPAGE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2130: error: ‘KEY_NPAGE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2134: error: ‘KEY_BEG’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2135: error: ‘KEY_HOME’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2138: error: ‘KEY_LL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2139: error: ‘KEY_END’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2246: error: ‘KEY_IC’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2251: error: ‘KEY_DC’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [alsamixer.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsamixer'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
filmer@hpFilmer:~/alsa-utils-1.0.19$ sudo make install
[sudo] password for filmer: 
Making install in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/include'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/include'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/include'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/include'
Making install in alsactl
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
Making install in init
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl/init'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl/init'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/share/alsa/init" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/share/alsa/init"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 '00main' '/usr/share/alsa/init/00main'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'default' '/usr/share/alsa/init/default'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'help' '/usr/share/alsa/init/help'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'info' '/usr/share/alsa/init/info'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'test' '/usr/share/alsa/init/test'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'hda' '/usr/share/alsa/init/hda'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl/init'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl/init'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
test -z "/usr/sbin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/sbin"
  /usr/bin/install -c 'alsactl' '/usr/sbin/alsactl'
test -z "/usr/share/man/man1" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/share/man/man1"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './alsactl.1' '/usr/share/man/man1/alsactl.1'
test -z "/usr/share/man/man7" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/share/man/man7"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './alsactl_init.7' '/usr/share/man/man7/alsactl_init.7'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsactl'
Making install in alsaconf
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
Making install in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf/po'
mkdir -p -- /usr/share
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf/po'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
test -z "/usr/sbin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/sbin"
 /usr/bin/install -c 'alsaconf' '/usr/sbin/alsaconf'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 alsaconf.8 /usr/share/man/man8/alsaconf.8
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 alsaconf.fr.8 /usr/share/man/fr/man8/alsaconf.8
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsaconf'
Making install in alsamixer
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsamixer'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include    -DCURSESINC="<ncurses.h>" -g -O2 -MT alsamixer.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/alsamixer.Tpo" -c -o alsamixer.o alsamixer.c; \
	then mv -f ".deps/alsamixer.Tpo" ".deps/alsamixer.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/alsamixer.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
alsamixer.c:122:19: error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
alsamixer.c:180: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_init_draw_contexts’:
alsamixer.c:343: error: ‘COLOR_WHITE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:343: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
alsamixer.c:343: error: for each function it appears in.)
alsamixer.c:343: error: ‘A_BOLD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:343: error: ‘COLOR_BLACK’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:343: error: ‘A_NORMAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:344: error: ‘COLOR_YELLOW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:345: error: ‘COLOR_CYAN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:348: error: ‘COLOR_GREEN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:349: error: ‘COLOR_RED’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:351: error: ‘A_DIM’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:352: error: ‘COLOR_BLUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:352: error: ‘A_REVERSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:355: error: ‘ACS_CKBOARD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_clear’:
alsamixer.c:394: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:394: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_abort’:
alsamixer.c:409: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:411: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:413: error: ‘FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_cbar_get_pos’:
alsamixer.c:463: error: ‘FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:481: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘draw_volume_bar’:
alsamixer.c:825: error: ‘ACS_LTEE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:826: error: ‘ACS_RTEE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:828: error: ‘ACS_LLCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:829: error: ‘ACS_HLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:831: error: ‘ACS_LRCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:837: error: ‘ACS_VLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:855: error: ‘ACS_ULCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:858: error: ‘ACS_URCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘draw_playback_switch’:
alsamixer.c:866: error: ‘ACS_LLCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:867: error: ‘ACS_HLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:869: error: ‘ACS_LRCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:871: error: ‘ACS_VLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:874: error: ‘ACS_ULCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:877: error: ‘ACS_URCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_draw_frame’:
alsamixer.c:1209: error: ‘ACS_VLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1214: error: ‘ACS_HLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1220: error: ‘ACS_ULCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1221: error: ‘ACS_URCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1222: error: ‘ACS_LLCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1224: error: ‘ACS_LRCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_show_text’:
alsamixer.c:1418: error: ‘ACS_LRCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1419: error: ‘ACS_LLCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1420: error: ‘ACS_ULCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1421: error: ‘ACS_URCORNER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1426: error: ‘ACS_VLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1428: error: ‘ACS_HLINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1445: error: ‘ACS_CKBOARD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1446: error: ‘ACS_BLOCK’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1447: error: ‘ACS_BOARD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘recalc_screen_size’:
alsamixer.c:1650: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_init_window’:
alsamixer.c:1854: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1867: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_resize’:
alsamixer.c:1886: error: ‘mixer_window’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:1886: error: ‘FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c: In function ‘mixer_iteration’:
alsamixer.c:2010: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2026: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2031: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2035: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2037: error: ‘FALSE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2045: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2055: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
alsamixer.c:2077: error: ‘TRUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2088: error: ‘KEY_BTAB’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2091: error: ‘KEY_A1’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2095: error: ‘KEY_A3’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2099: error: ‘KEY_C1’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2103: error: ‘KEY_C3’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2107: error: ‘KEY_RIGHT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2111: error: ‘KEY_LEFT’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2115: error: ‘KEY_UP’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2120: error: ‘KEY_DOWN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2125: error: ‘KEY_PPAGE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2130: error: ‘KEY_NPAGE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2134: error: ‘KEY_BEG’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2135: error: ‘KEY_HOME’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2138: error: ‘KEY_LL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2139: error: ‘KEY_END’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2246: error: ‘KEY_IC’ undeclared (first use in this function)
alsamixer.c:2251: error: ‘KEY_DC’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [alsamixer.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/filmer/alsa-utils-1.0.19/alsamixer'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
filmer@hpFilmer:~/alsa-utils-1.0.19$ 

after this I run the following:

filmer@hpFilmer:~/alsa-utils-1.0.19$ sudo alsaconf
Building card database..

you will get a screen that looks like this: http://www.jeremyiglehart.com/tutorials/screenshots/screenshot2.png

after following the screens on that you can go into System > Preferences > Sound and select the sound drivers you want to use... I suggest a reboot before this - if you're like me you will get the boot up sound and it will be glorious :)  I still don't have a mic.

But sound works... then I realized I couldn't submit bug reports (something random crashed) because I'm not up to date with everything...  So I did the following

[worked] sudo apt-get update
[worked, after an hour of updating] sudo apt-get upgrade

During the upgrade it did something to the kernel and a BUNCH of other things... and so yeah it broke my sound and AGAIN it doesn't work.  This time I just repeated these steps - all th eones from above that worked... everything did exactly like before the apt-get update/upgrade - even failing on the alsa-util package... my sound works just fine - but still no mic.

I fiddeled around with all the input devices - i installed alsamixer for gnome and played with that - and I found something that is promising.  I get static when I use one of the input methods... its called "capture" (the one of the left...) and when the volume is maxed it provides me with great loud static -this is even audible on the skype test call.  After a while I found out if I tap on the computer over where the headset/mic jack is I will get sound.  Using alsamixer for gnome you can select recording devices - if you mute all of them except one by one this is the only one that provides static.  You can also get a feed of sound to hear it using the system > preferences > sound screen - I can get sound from any of the options in that menu that have OSS or ALSA written on them.

6 to 8 hours plus working on this today and still no mic and I need it to talk to my girlfriend in Ukraine.  So if anyone could help figure out this mic thing I would appreciate it (it would make my phone bill cheaper too ;)  My girlfriend also says hi and she wants this fixed too ;P

Thanks for all the help, I hope we can get a real solution to this soon :)
-Filmer