Hi my motherboard is an intel dq965gf with built in audio. from the command aplay -l I get this response...

[root@feddy10 ~]# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

well I am not really sure what it means but I assume it seems my intel card. now with my speakers plugged in I go to system-preferences-hardware-sound and fiddle with all the test settings (not knowing really what I am doing). under sound playback I have these options to test:

1) HDA intel stac92xx analogue (alsa)
2) HDA Intel stac92xx analogue (oss)
3) HDA Intel stac92xx analogue (oss)
4) ALSA (advanced linux sound architecture)
5) pulse audio sound server

I have no idea why #2 and #3 say the same thing but anyway---2-5 work. 2 and three give a beep (not that loud) and 4 and 5 beep but you can barely hear it. 1 pops up a box with the following message

audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not open audio device for playback.

regardless of all this, no matter the setting I cannot hear cd's or any sound (trying from youtube) through my speakers.

I have no idea what is going on as any time in the past on an os that I tested via some sort of sound test and I got a beep I was able to hear music etc through the speakers.

thanks you much in advance I really don't want to have to purchase a separate card. If I can run any other commands to get more info on the soundcard to post please let me know.

btw this worked on this same computer with centos 5.2 and last year with fedora version 8.

http://www.alphatek.info/category/fedora/

clunk on this if you have a similar issue...