Comment 28 for bug 274424

UPDATE: WORKS THROUGH MY HEADPHONES WITHOUT ECHOS/REPEATS/ETC (I don't know how to make it come through the speakers. Is there a setting somewhere to make it output the speakers?)

I reinstalled Ubuntu 9.04 and performed all the updates the Ubuntu's update manager suggested (I noticed some pulse audio updates; there were a lot of updates so there may have been other sound related items updated as well). Also I don't know if it matters but I installed Pulse Volume Controller, VLC, and Wine. I performed the following:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

# then I added the following lines at the end of the file and REBOOTED!
options snd-hda-intel model=hp-dv5
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

I'm not sure if the model is important... I have an hp-dv3 so I'm going to substitute that for the model and see if the sound works. If you have the same dv3-2155mx (dunno if its the same for other HPs) the speaker icon on the keyboard is WHITE (as oppose to orange like it was before) by the time the login screen came up. If its Orange I dunno if it'll work... my wifi never worked when it was orange during the live CDs.

If you know how to change the output to the speakers please post a reply or email me at spamtaker666(at)yahoo.com. Thank you very much and I'll post more of my results asap.