This Acer Aspire 1640Z I got is making me crazy! I got the video and wifi running fine; but the audio is not making any sound, even though it *seems* the drivers for the hardware are correctly loaded and running. "lspci" reports the audio as: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) And "lsmod" shows the appropriate driver is loaded: snd_hda_intel 18324 0 snd_hda_codec 127104 1 snd_hda_intel snd_pcm 71940 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 22404 1 snd_pcm snd 50532 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 10592 1 snd snd_page_alloc 10504 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm I loaded "alsamixer" and made sure the volume isn't muted. I looked through a lot of forums to see if anyone had a helpful hint - and I tried all the hints - and still, no joy. I would be most appreciative if someone had some experience with this model and could help me out.

Sound problem solved, and an up to speed distro to the bargain. What I did? In my terminal, I ran: gksu “update-manager -c -d” Waited for 28 minutes while it upgraded the distro, and voila. I'm runnning Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft with crystal clear sound!