Hello BlissSam,
After upgrading to 3.9.2 kernel, the sound did not work. However, the system CAN recognize my sound card, and my sound card appeared in `alsamixer` Downgrading the kernel can solve the problem.
Providing more info:
Acer Aspire laptop, with Intel i5 CPU, 2nd generation SandyBridge.
`uname -a`:
Linux brilliant-laptop 3.9.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 11 20:31:08 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
`lspci | grep Audio`:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
lspci -nn | grep Audio could provide some info susceptible to help. snd_hda_intel apply treat differently hda intel hardware differently depending on device id. Explore a little bit files content under /proc/asound Such as: /proc/asound/cards /proc/asound/devices /proc/asound/pcm /proc/asound/card0/codec* Fallback to simple stuff such as speaker-test -c2 aplay somewavfile.wav aplay -l aplay -L I have found it useful and very interesting to do strace -e trace=open speaker-test -c2 That shows you all config files that alsa-lib opens. ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium.