I have an Acer Aspire 8920g and Alsa's snd-hda-intel does not have a model that works completely on it yet. However after some help on the Alsa lists, I was able to get it working for stereo anyway on internal speakers. See this post:
This is on Fedora 9, but it is not a distro-specific issue (assuming your distro builds the kernel with CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP anyway, otherwise you are into rebuilding alsa with that option as well as the applet mentioned in the post above).
I have an Acer Aspire 8920g and Alsa's snd-hda-intel does not have a model that works completely on it yet. However after some help on the Alsa lists, I was able to get it working for stereo anyway on internal speakers. See this post:
http:// mailman. alsa-project. org/pipermail/ alsa-devel/ 2008-May/ 007653. html
This is on Fedora 9, but it is not a distro-specific issue (assuming your distro builds the kernel with CONFIG_ SND_HDA_ HWDEP anyway, otherwise you are into rebuilding alsa with that option as well as the applet mentioned in the post above).