no soundcards found 9.10 upgrade on Dell studio xps

[Ron Burns]

Steve wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
[ 4 ] <wee> (ron) lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b2)
00:03.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SMBus (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller 
(rev b1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller 
(rev b1)
00:06.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller 
(rev b1)
00:06.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller 
(rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio 
(rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge (rev b1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
00:0b.0 SATA controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 AHCI Controller (rev b1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:18.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
01:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller 
(rev 05)
01:07.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro 
Host Adapter (rev 22)
01:07.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host 
Adapter (rev 12)
01:07.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M 
G] (rev b1)
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

Also per suggestion from Barry Premeaux I used gnome-device-manager 
which shows "(null) Sound Card"


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