Sound card not recognized

[Susan Cragin]

>Susan Cragin wrote:
>> My drivers have worked great on Studio until a day or so ago.

>You know what also happened? Updates. ;) Things like kernel updates
>happen that will make you rebase you compiled drivers aginst these new
>changes. Make sure you have latest kernel headers and all that.
>
>Also just watch what you call a bug when you're not using the distro as
>designed. More often that not, it's user error.  I can't tell you how
>many times even now I personally just missed something.
>
>If you are completely up to date (note that you have to make sure you
>have all current headers and such installed. don't just rely on the
>update manager) and you purged then re-compiled drivers still don't
>work, hopefully we can get you some help and see if this really is a bug.
>
>
>-Cory K.

I'm going to re-install everything tomorrow and see what happens with the automatic drivers. I have the feeling that sound just does not work when using the Generic kernel. At all. Under any circumstances. But I'll know more tomorrow. 
Susan