Xubuntu sound doesn't work?

[faustism]

hello. Im using xubuntu and the sound doesn't work. It can beep, like if i hit the backspace button in an empty text feild. Because of this i am assuming that the sound card (ISA) is plugged in, because the speaker wire runs from that. I have seen other threads about problems with xubuntu sound but none of them were resolved. Has anyone come up with a solution
by the way, this is xubuntu 8.10.

thank you in advance

[roger_1960]

Hi

This might not be it, but.......

Run 'alsamixer' in terminal and check that the master vol. and the PC speaker vol.(on the far right) are set above zero. I made this error after a new install.

[faustism]

i tried that and i got this message:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

do i have to install something?

thanks for the response

[faustism]

Does anyone know what I should do to get rid of that error?

[faustism]

yay! it works now. what i did was...

asoundconf list

then i picked one of the cads (there was only 1)

asoundconf set-default-card cardname

replace card name with the card you want from the first list

restart the computer.

alsamixer

make sure that the volume is above nothing

play music!