I stand corrected looking harder I tend find an earlier kernel... which had similar issues... apparently it is not the kernel after all :/. I did a process comparison between before the kludge and after... it turns out that pulseaudio is the problem.
Now I when I just killall pulseaudio after testing it with sound preferences, it works... :) -- ALSA Sound absent with kernel 2.26.7-7 on Dell E520 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs