no soundcards found 9.10 upgrade on Dell studio xps

[Ron Burns]

Thank you for the reply Barry.  I do not know if the sound driver 
package is loaded. I suspect that is not but I do not know how to check 
other than the "aplay -l" which says no soundcards detected.  Dell 
support indicated that the XPS sound driver package was  part of the 
kernel in 9.04.  They so not support 9.10 (yet) and so the sound driver 
for the Dell Studio XPS may be missing from the 9.10 kernel.  JW Paster 
in an earlier response said

The latest kernel was supposed to fix XPS sound problems also but if you are not fully updated you may not have the latest one installed.    

I am fully updated so either the fix is not included in the latest 
kernel or I need to do something more and I don't know what the next 
step is.

Regards
   Ron

Barry Premeaux wrote:
> Do you know if the sound driver package is loaded?  It may have been
> deleted during the upgrade.  If you can find out what package supports
> your sound chip set, install it (or remove and reinstall).  See if
> that brings it back up.
>
> Barry
>
>   


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R. R. Burns
Physicist (Retired)
Oceanside, CA