PCI/internal sound card not detected

[Marcelo Aires Caetano]

linux can't load alsa driver, when you tries to do it manually shows this output:
 $: sudo modprobe alsa
FATAL: Module alsa not found.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
Date: Sun Apr 28 17:54:13 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-02 (177 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Title: PCI/internal sound card not detected
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-28 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/19/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A10
dmi.board.name: 0NW73C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd10/19/2012:svnDellInc.:pnXPS8500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0NW73C:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: XPS 8500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

The correct command would be:
sudo modprobe -v snd-hda-intel

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version:
Library version: 1.0.25
Utilities version: 1.0.25

.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

[ 27.047237] snd: Unknown symbol sound_class (err 0)
[ 27.047333] snd: Unknown symbol sound_class (err 0)
[ 27.048689] snd: Unknown symbol sound_class (err 0)
[ 27.300981] EXT4-fs (sdc1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro

grep: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1580: No soundcards found...

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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