I have no sound on a HP Pavilion dv6-1053cl laptop with the “Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)” (as reported by “lspci”) running OpenSUSE 11.1 with KDE4.1.
Running
speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav
from Konsole both as a standard and root user gives no sound.
Output of alsa-info.sh is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=56712ae91676e1844a6c0f65cb367cedca607009
linux-00vc:~ # rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-utils-1.0.18-6.4
alsa-firmware-1.0.17-1.42
alsa-plugins-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-driver-kmp-pae-1.0.20.20090815_2.6.27.25_0.1-1.1
alsa-1.0.18-8.7
alsa-tools-1.0.18-1.13
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
alsa-oss-1.0.17-1.37
linux-00vc:~ # rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.14-2.2.1
pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.14-2.2.1
pulseaudio-lang-0.9.14-2.2.1
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.3-0.pm.3
libpulse0-0.9.14-2.2.1
libpulse-browse0-0.9.14-2.2.1
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.14-2.2.1
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.14-2.2.1
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.14-2.2.1
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.14-2.2.1
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.18-6.12
pulseaudio-0.9.14-2.2.1
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.14-2.2.1
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.14-2.2.1
linux-00vc:~ # rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.18-8.7
linux-00vc:~ # uname -a
Linux linux-00vc 2.6.27.25-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2009-07-01 15:37:09 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
linux-00vc:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
# u1Nb.SXH0RzeuC39:82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel