My sound also started to work now which is pure joy. Thanks to everyone
who contributed to making this happen!

As pointed out by others, the microphone doesn't work though. Here is the 
strangest part though:
If I install "recordmydesktop" then the mic works but it records with extremely 
low volume. With the usual "sound recorder" utility app all I get is aggressive 
snapping or pounding sounds (reminds me of some kind of motor or something). 
These strange snapping sounds are also not related to how or what I say when 
I'm recording, the snapping sounds that's actually being recorded into the 
audio file are regular in pace and volume. Microphone also doesn't work in 
Skype on Linux. In Vista on the same machine the mic works in all apps. I have 
tried googling for hours on various configurations inside alsamixer etc but 
nothing worked. I've tried unmuting/muting various channels like "mic boost", 
"front boost" etc and I've tried all kinds of input source settings but I 
simply could not get the mic to work in ubuntu inside any application except 
for the strange and magic "recordmydesktop" application. Finally, one more 
curious detail is that I tried to boot Fedora Core 9 Preview on this same 
machine and there the mic didn't work either (which is not that suprising given 
that they have the same ALSA version, they have pulse audio etc) but for some 
reason I can actually get the mic to work using the F9 preview live CD by 
deploying the usual tricks (messing around with settings in alsamixer etc). I 
also noted that if I turn up the "mic boost" to maximum in F9 I hear those 
strange snapping/pounding sounds again but much weaker.

Getting high quality microphone support to work would be a great
improvement though, mostly because of Skype.

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No audio INTEL HD audio - Realtek ALC268 codec - Toshiba A205-S4577 / Acer 
TravelMate 6292
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116326
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