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Hi
I just installed fresh.I was using Ubuntu 9.04 before.The sound worked fine before.In sound preferences the soundcard is listed as ICE1712[envy 24] PCI i/o controller.It's an maudio soundcard.I don't know if Ubuntu "knows" what the soundcard really is, as the drivers were listed as similar names before, in other distros.The output of lsmod suggests that all the right drivers are loaded.There are also the snd and soundcore drivers.So can i assume alsa installed correctly?.The output of dmesg only mentions the driver on one line.Here is the relevent line fron dmesg:

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  13.941990]  alloc irq_desc for 17 on node -1

[  13.941995]  alloc kstat_irqs on node -1

[  13.942004] ICE1712 0000:02:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17

[  13.971901] type=1505 audit(1278424158.173:11):  operation="profile_load" pid=640 name="/usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer"

I've tried messing around in sound preferences.I've tried messing around in alsamixer.I've tried different cable-in-socket combinations.Still no sound on any of the apps i've tried since installing(firefox, totem etc).
I really don't know what to do.
Someone fixed their sound problem by doing:
Code:

$rm -r ~/.pulse

could this work for me?.I don't know if i have any pulse audio apps installed.So this probably won't work right?.Do you think it's worth a try?.What else should i do?
Here's the output of aplay -l:

Code:

card 0: M2496 [M Audio Audiophile 24/96], device 0: ICE1712 multi [ICE1712 multi]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

And here's the output of lshw -C multimedia:

Code:

 *-multimedia            

      description: Multimedia audio controller

      product: ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller

      vendor: VIA Technologies Inc.

      physical id: 1

      bus info: pci@0000:02:01.0

      version: 02

      width: 32 bits

      clock: 33MHz

      capabilities: bus_master cap_list

      configuration: driver=ICE1712 latency=32

      resources: irq:17 ioport:c800(size=32) ioport:c400(size=16) ioport:c000(s

Thank you for your time
regards