The sound in this laptop has not worked since I installed Xubuntu. (It worked fine with OpenSuSE).

Before I started goofing around, here's what I learned:

. aplay -l gave no soundcards found

. lspci -v brought this response (showing just the audio part)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Cirrus Logic Crystal WMD Audio Codec
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
I/O ports at dc80 [size=64]

. cat /proc/asound/cards returned the following before I messed it up worse:
0 [I82801CAICH3 ]: ICH - Intel 82801CA-ICH3
Intel 82801CA-ICH3 with CS4205 at 0xd800, irq 5
(now there is no /proc/asound directory)

. lsmod | grep snd_ yielded
snd_intel8x0 34204 0
snd_ac97_codec 98336 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 3200 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 44544 0
snd_mixer_oss 17408 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 79876 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss 32896 0
snd_seq_midi 9600 0
snd_rawmidi 25472 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 52592 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 23684 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9100 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 54020 10 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_ti mer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc 10888 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Note, on Ubuntu Forums I found someone who has regular Ubuntu (remember, I'm running Xubuntu) on the same model Dell; she had the same list here PLUS the line
soundcore 8672 1 snd
(also the numbers like 34204 in my first line were sometimes a little different).


So, I followed the directions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto. That didn't work out so great because now, like I said, there is no /proc/asound directory, and also lsmod | grep snd_ gives an empty response. I think no sound drivers at all (or modules, if there is a difference) are being loaded.

I could sure use some ideas. Thanks in advance,
Will