Ok, I have sound now!  Thanks $1M for your help!  But I had to reinstall
my nvidia drivers for the appropriate kernel, since my screen resolution
dropped.  Got it fixed now....

I think I have a possible theory as to what happened. When I installed
the closed source nvidia drivers, It must have picked up the (wrong)
-386 kernel as a dependency since I see nvidia drivers for both in the
synaptic package manager.  This is still very dangerous,  a total newbie
could get totally messed up if they wound up with the wrong kernel by
accident.

I guess the "bug" now is figuring out how somebody (me) could have
subtly wound up installing an incorrect kernel with non-working sound
modules.  Why is the i386 version hanging around in the synaptic package
manager?  And if it is there for a good reason for it being there,
shouldn't it be fully supported? ( sound modules and all )  As a
suggestion, there probably should be more warning if dumb users like me
are about to install a new default kernel from synaptic that sub-optimal
or not recommended for your current hardware platform.

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron alpha 5 no sound device
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