Linux Mint 21.1 Mate: No Sound on Dell Inspiron.

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Linux Mint 21.1 Mate: No Sound on Dell Inspiron.

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I have just installed linux mint mate 21.1 on my old dell laptop, but no matter what i try i cant make the sound work.
I dont have a dummy output from what i can tell, and i think the OS recognizes the sound card.
I have tried several solutions from google in no avail.
Any suggestion on what to do?

Inxi output:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-69-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
    Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 info: mate-panel wm: marco 1.26.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 3521 v: A12
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 8 v: A12
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 070JCP v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A12 date: 10/25/2013
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 22.4 Wh (91.8%) condition: 24.4/40.3 Wh (60.4%)
    volts: 16.3 min: 14.4 model: SANYO DELL 4WY7C2CE type: Unknown
    serial: <filter> status: Charging
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-3227U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB
    L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1560 high: 1784 min/max: 800/1900 cores: 1: 1522
    2: 1784 3: 1369 4: 1567 bogomips: 15165
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915
    v: kernel ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series] vendor: Dell
    driver: radeon v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:6840 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Microdia Dell Laptop Integrated Webcam HD type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.4:5 chip-ID: 0c45:64ad class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: marco v: 1.26.0
    driver: X: loaded: ati,modesetting,radeon unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: LG res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101
    size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 395mm (15.5") modes: 1366x768
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
    v: 4.2 Mesa 22.2.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-69-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000
    bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell
    driver: ath9k v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 08:00.0
    chip-ID: 168c:0032 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp8s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth USB Host Controller type: USB
    driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.1:3 chip-ID: 0cf3:e004 class-ID: e001
    serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0 sub-v: 1 hci-v: 4.0 rev: 102
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 80.12 GiB (17.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500LT012-9WS142 size: 465.76 GiB
    speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: SDM1 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 456.89 GiB used: 40.06 GiB (8.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 326.1 MiB (15.9%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2600
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 2156
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://mint.ipacct.com/packages vera main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://ubuntu.lagis.at/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://ubuntu.lagis.at/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://ubuntu.lagis.at/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
    1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Info:
  Processes: 242 Uptime: 25m wakeups: 1 Memory: 3.72 GiB
  used: 2.03 GiB (54.5%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: mate-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13
aplay and arecord output:

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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3221 Analog [ALC3221 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3221 Analog [ALC3221 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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