Hi,
I’m here at work again, after 3 weeks at Köln learning German, meeting a lot of people and also having fun. What I can say about the city is “das Wetter ist schlecht aber die Leute sind toll” :-)
I arrived Galicia on Saturday, and after 20 days without using a computer (very nice experience), I retook my sound problems with mine Intel HDA sound card. The problem was very weird, I had sound once the system is up (the module was loaded also without problems) but every time I tried to modify the volume by software then the sound turned off. As usually I thought that the problem was mine, you know, bad configurations and so on.
But then I found this, basically the sound support for the Intel HDA was broken in the 2.6.16 series of the Linux kernel. So I updated my kernel to the 2.6.17 series and everything worked well