[linux-audio-user] Conexant laptop sound woes

Hello again all, It has been too long, since I last posted. I hope all is happy and well, and hopefull I'll get to see many of you again at FAVE this year. Anyway, I do have some LAU business, and I really hope someone can help me here because I am at a total loss. A few months ago I bought a laptop for the wife. It is a Packard Bell Easynote A8550 (1). They are selling these fairly cheaply at the moment and it looked ideal. Unfortunately getting it to make a sound in Linux has caused me no end of headaches. It appears that the problem relates to the Conexant chipset(2). From what I can gather Conexant have not released the data sheet to the ALSA crowd. And so, I suffer in silence. I am not too sure about though, as I am not a massively technical person. This really frustrates me because it seems that all the other PB machines have working sound!! Does anyone know if Conexant regularly do this sort of thing? and how often do they release data sheets? I fear that I may be waiting in vain.FWIW this is all in Edgy Eft. All help, comments and advice much appreciated! Cheers John