Comment 104 for bug 411574

I wasn't sure what qwerty800 was referring to by "...and find your model of card. Remember it as XYZ" in post #14, so I simply typed "sudo alsa force-reload" into a terminal session and viola! there was sound, glorious sound! :-D I've created a little mini script on my desktop that I'll run for a while...if it works out, I'll add that one line to my .profile until I see this has been fixed. That could be a work around for some of us.

Not having sound is kind of a big deal--totally kills the computing experience, especially with the scarcity of decent, portable open source format multimedia players.