no soundcards found 9.10 upgrade on Dell studio xps

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:36:07 -0800, Ron Burns wrote:

> Hi all-
> 
> I recently upgraded my Dell studio xps laptop (which shipped with 9.04)
> to 9.10. I now have no sound.  No soundcard is detected:
> 
> [ 2 ] <wee> (ron) aplay -l
> aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
> 
> Dell is no help as they do not support 9.10.  Is there any work around
> for this or do the drivers need to be compiled into the kernel?
> 
> Thanks for your consideration and help.
> 
> Ron

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=439369 might help.
(google is your friend :) )

Good luck!

    -Frans