Odd OSS/ALSA issues from Edgy->Feisty upgraded system

[Matthew Carpenter]

Hi all,

I run Kubuntu on a HP DV6000t (Intel Centrino Duo).
Edgy ran pretty good on it, but had some issues with sound, screen, etc... 
(because of the odd way HP does hardware at times).

Upgrading to Feisty was great.  Most of my problems went away.  Screen 
intensity adjustments stopped making X explode, plugging in my headphones 
actually redirected sound to them, and several other niceties (like suspend).

Unfortunately, after a while of running the upgraded feisty box, I notice that 
not all is perfect.  
* I've had issues with guidance-power-manager crashing.  It was broken from 
the start, I submitted a bug report, it started working again, but then broke 
within a couple days/weeks (I don't recall)

* More importantly, I noticed that OSS was the only available sound option for 
my machine.  ALSA simply doesn't work.  I've verified that Ekiga only shows 
up OSS as an option, Amarok only works with Xine/OSS and setting KDE's sound 
to use ALSA breaks sound.  A fresh install on a different hard drive shows me 
that ALSA indeed works on the machine (quite well).  How would I go about 
repairing the original install?  How would I troubleshoot it?

Thank you,
Matt
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