Nicholas Anderson wrote:
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
the strange thing is that the modules are being loaded well, and there's no errors in logs or console .... it just doesn't work ....
This sounds suspiciously like problems I've had with fresh Fedora installs on some notebooks; the problem is that the ALSA sound mixer has channels disabled, or muted, or turned all the way down.
Try popping up 'alsamixer' in a root shell and see if anything in there looks like it was messed with.
-te