no soundcards found 9.10 upgrade on Dell studio xps

[Steve]

On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:26:34 -0000, Ron Burns <rrburns at cox.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
In a terminal run

	lspci

and post the results.


-- 
Steve