Comment 7 for bug 280305

I can confirm this bug here on a Toshiba Satellite U400, Ubuntu 8.10, latest updates up to Oct 13, 2008.

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

avid@toshiba:~$ lsmod | grep hda
snd_hda_intel 381488 3
snd_pcm 83204 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd 63268 13 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc 16136 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

Actually, I found a "solution" too. It works in my case:
In /etc/init.d/alsa-utils comment the line "mute_and_zero_levels "$TARGET_CARD" || EXITSTATUS=1" to "#mute_and_zero_levels "$TARGET_CARD" || EXITSTATUS=1". The mute_and_zero_levels call waits a very long time. In my case, I even thought it was forever.

By the way, I think it used to work about one month ago, but I'm not sure which alsa-utils version this was.