I have the exact same problem on a E6400 : sound worked in 8.10, broke
after a 9.04 update, but works again when using the 2.6.28-11 kernel.

There seems to have been sound issues with E6x00 reported for 2.6.29
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/15/249), could this be linked ?

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Dell Latitude 6500: No audio in 2.6.28-11
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