sound with Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW

I know this has been covered before, but I am just doing a periodical check to see if anyone has solved it in the meantime. Many do seem to get sound on laptops now, so there is hope...

I have an Acer Aspire 1604Z. lspci shows the onboard sound to be

Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

I have etch and have now upgraded the kernel to 2.6.18-5-686 as someone suggested the newer kernel might help. It didn't (in fact, the install quietly uninstalled grub and deleted /boot/grub/, which made me regret trying this...) Obviously I have run alsaconf, checked with alsamixer that nothing seems to be muted, tried 'modprobe snd-intel8x0' and so on. So far, this laptop is as silent under linux as every other laptop I ever had.

It would be really nice if someone knows how to make it sing, as I am getting tired of telling Doze users that the only reason my computer cannot play cds is that I haven't any need to and haven't had time to configure it. Actually both statements are untrue :-(

TIA,
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richard

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