[Gutsy] No sound on Dell Latitude D630 with Intel HDA (ICH8)

[Emanuel Goscinski]

My System:
Dell Latitude D630

On a fresh Installed Gutsy Tribe 5, the Sound-Card isn't recognised. I mean cat /proc/asound/cards gave me no output.
Nor the KMixer or Alsamixer have anything to mix.

On my Feisty System the Soundcard is recognised as followed:
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:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfebfc000 irq 20
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:~$ head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*
==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <==
Codec: SigmaTel STAC9205

==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 <==
Codec: Conexant ID 2c06

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I'm sorry but at the moment I can't provide more Information, because I have to reinstall the Gutsy Test System in the next days, at the moment it isn't installed.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You mention that this is a fresh installed system. Did you install any updates? I believe there have been some post Tribe 5 kernel updates that should resolve this issue for you. Please update your system and let us know if this is still an issue for you. Thanks in advance.

[Emanuel Goscinski (emu--deactivatedaccount)]

I've Installed a fresh Gutsy today and updatet it. But:
Problem still exists.

~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---

I compiled the alsa 1.0.15rc2 on my Feisty System, this solved any Problems with this Sound-Device.

[alan ezust (alan-ezust)]

I can confirm, I had the same problem. I had to delete the actual intel driver in /lib/modules, and then install alsa-drivers, alsa-libs, and alsa-utils from source in order to get sound working.

I thought it was supposed to be *easier* than debian to set up sound, but all the forums tell me that I need alsaconf, which doesn't exist in ubuntu.

[balador (balador)]

To resolv this problem I hava down load the latest version of the Alsa driver and compile it after restating the computer the sound was ok
 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.15.tar.bz2