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No Audio - Linux Mint 16 (MATE)

Hello,

I converted an 8 year old Toshiba Satellite from XP to Linux Mint 16 (MATE). Install went well, but no sound. I don't think ALSA can find the Intel ICH6 high definition audio controller.

See the attached text file generated from an Alsa Information Script.

Thanks in advance.
alsa-info.txt
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Hi Wizard,

Your referenced link begins with "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec". But I have no card0 directory anywhere in the file system. Perhaps it is because Mint or ALSA has not discovered the sound card.
In particular you need to go to section of page
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto#Choosing_Your_Model
And try all possible toshiba configurations in a row
Make sure to power off as wrong choice may lock up mixer so that good config cannot work
You will need to modprobe snd-hda-intel at least. That is where the ICH6 sound support is. It was not loaded in your alsa-info.txt.
snd-hda-intel is also mentioned extensively in gheist's link above. Once you modprobe it, your card should be recognized and then you can follow the instructions
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Sorry for delay. I am trying your suggestions now.

Gheist: I can't find my sound card by running "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec"    found at the beginning of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto#Choosing_Your_Model, because the asound directory does not contain a card0 subdirectory. he only folder is "seq".

Duncan: Running sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base does not give me any visual indication that anything occurred.
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Per Kimputer's advice regarding steps at "https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto", I did the following.

- Added "options snd-hda-intel model=3stack" at the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

The 3stack model was found here: "http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1043568", which was a link from the Howto

- Ran "sudo alsa force-reload" in terminal.

No joy.  Rebooted Linux Mint. Still no sound.
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nano is just a text editor, he was trying to look at the content of that file.
@Kimputer: thanks for that.
@LarryZ: My bad, you already have snd_hda_intel loaded (the command to load it needs minus signs but the module appears with underscores). modrpobe -v would not have displayed anything therefore, because it would have been a no-op.
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Thanks for helping everyone. I never got audio working, because my friend's Toshiba overheats and shuts itself off now. It won't make an XP replacement laptop after all. I split the points across contributors.  Regards, LarryZ.