J.J. Garcia wrote:
Same here, same "ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller" for a Dell Inspiron 3100 and having the same issue, no sound at all, even checking alsamixer to verify muted channels.
Some laptops have a mixer chip that is not recognized by default. For example on this Samsung Q35 this is required in /etc/modprobe.conf
options snd-hda-intel index=0 single_cmd=1 model=laptop-eapd
-Andy