[COLUG] Feisty warning sound problem request

[charles morrison]

I have a rather new Acer Aspire 5100-3357 and have installed Feisty. 
Anything less than Feisty was not installing properly, so I went with 
the Kubuntu beta which mostly worked on installation. I have been using 
it for a couple months, even with a Sierra Aircard using Cingular.

The sound worked when I first installed it and after updates, does not 
work anymore. In trying to get it to work, I found directions which 
called for uninstalling and reinstalling ALSA and on some derivatives of 
Ubuntu, had a warning about the uninstall procedure removing other files.

Well, it removed them under Kubuntu, too, which included my desktop.

Being out of town, it was difficult to get it working due to the no 
availability of a free connection to the internet for the installation 
procedure to work. All the dependent files are not on the Feisty install 
disk, so it looks to repositories to get them, which you cannot get 
without an open network connection, which I cannot get without a GUI 
working. (desktop removed) (used apt-get install kdm kubuntu-desktop 
from a command line which still worked)

My solution was contacting a local computer club and using a member's 
home network to get access, which then worked. I am using it now.

There seems to be a lot of people having the same problem of sound not 
working (also modem since it uses ALSA). I was wondering if some one on 
the list has seen a solution which works. I already tried getting it 
new, since that's the procedure which wiped out my desktop.

lspci -v finds: Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)

aplay: device_list:222: no soundcards found...

Side note, when booting there is an error message which states that a 
pci bus error found. I don't have details on the error, and don't see it 
listed in dmesg.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Charlie Morrison