no sound on HP pavillion laptop model dv6

[chris]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 22:35 +0100, Alfredo De Luca wrote:
> I am having the same problem. I tried everything but not luck. 
> 
> 
> Also when I choose Sound Preferences then Hawrdware there is nothing
> in there and on the output tab there is dummy output.
> 
> 
> I have a HP Pavillion dv6523a.....
> 
> 
add the following line at the bottom of the
file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=(whatever your model is: ie laptop desktop
etc)

Cheers the kiwi