Public bug reported:
Sound was disabled after upgrading from 12.04. Today I did a clean 12.10
install, to no avail. The only device listed is Dummy Output. Added
here some outputs that seem to be relevant:
For aplay -l:
aplay: device_list:252: no soundcards found...
For cat /proc/asound/cards:
Raymond, I followed the advice given here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1158033#p1158033
to wit, add
blacklist i82975x_edac
to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
It really did kill two birds with a stone: booting Ubuntu could take
several minutes and the sound was disabled, now