[Solved] No sound (only headphones) on Thinkpad X200 Tablet

A few years ago, I installed Arch on a Thinkpad X200 Tablet, and everything was fine until a few day ago the HD had to be replaced. I was happy with system and the only think I remember being a headache was the touchscreen.
With the new HD, I decided to reinstall and not keeping config files, for a complete fresh start. One of the first things I did was setup sound, as it was really easy and worked just out-of-box with ALSA. After that, I installed some apps and the DE (Gnome this time, I've been previously working with only a WM, Awesome). I remeber even watching and listening a flash video with no problems.
Today, I keep installing some tweaks: GDM, laptop-tools, HDAPS, setting a console font... and suddenly, I noticed sound was not working anymore. Looked at alsamixer, and everything looks fine. Booting on init level 3 the problem persists, so it's not a Gnome issue. I tried blacklisting the more recent modules and daemons, but no sound. I tried plugging some headphones, and hey, the headphones work!
After reviewing the Arch wiki, Thinkwiki, googling, and trying several workarounds (most of them settings at modprobe.conf, and unmutting everything), I'm still with no sound, and very puzzled for the situation. I would greatly appreciate any help on this, or any clue to keep researching.
$ lspci|grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
$ lsmod |grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 1119 0
snd_seq_oss 25232 0
snd_hda_codec_conexant 35779 1
snd_seq_midi_event 4568 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 41912 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 4409 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 33950 0
snd_mixer_oss 15366 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_intel 18988 1
snd_hda_codec 64796 2 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 4804 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 59496 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 15687 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 6053 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd 43987 14 snd_seq_oss,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer,thinkpad_acpi
soundcore 4961 1 snd
$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
29 thinkpad_acpi
Last edited by Sachiel (2011-04-02 11:58:31)

Hola joseperezc, thank you for the recommendations.
Installing alsa-oss -> Nothing changes.
pcspkr is loaded by default:
$ lsmod |grep pcspkr
pcspkr 1367 0
I also tried blacklisting it, but no results.
I also tried this conf:
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=auto
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
But still no sound.
Btw, atm I have:
$ pacman -Qs alsa
alocal/alsa-lib 1.0.24.1-1
An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsa-utils 1.0.24.2-1
An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
I also tried muting the SPDIF channels (I read that sometimes if they are enabled, the conflict with analog output), but no changes. And the sad thing is that it was working before... I'm thinking on uninstalling everything step by step...

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