I'm running edgy on an Acer Aspire 5102WLMi. All the alsa bits seem to have been installed during setup, but gnome-sound-properties had everything set to OSS. Switching to alsa resulted in no sound. To get esd working, I had to replace libesd-alsa0 with libesd0 os that it would work with oss.
** Attachment added: "lspci, lsmod, etc. output" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5253419/alsa_bug.txt -- No sound on Acer laptops w/ Realtek ALC883 chipset https://launchpad.net/bugs/63971 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs