gnome-alsamixer crashed with SIGSEGV in gam_mixer_show_props_dialog()

Binary package hint: gnome-alsamixer

I have installed Gusty on a Dell 630. The sound has never worked on it.

if i click the speaker icon in the top panel i get:
No Volumn control GStreamer plugins or devices found.

If i click on the "alsamixer gui, in Aplications -> sound and Video I get:
alsamixer: function snd_ctrl_open failed for defaults: No such device.

I have tried google for a coulpe of weeks now, but to no avail.

I am farily new to Linux so not sure what other info you need. I installed the 7.10 because 7.04 wouldnt boot on this machine.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 25 14:59:08 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-alsamixer
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-alsamixer 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-alsamixer
ProcCwd: /home/dshannon
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-alsamixer
StacktraceTop:
 gam_mixer_show_props_dialog ()
 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID ()
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
Title: gnome-alsamixer crashed with SIGSEGV in gam_mixer_show_props_dialog()
Uname: Linux dshannonTux 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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