I just installed my THIRD sound card....I guess three's a charm- Hooked the 'puter back up...tried it out, and now I have SOUND...finally! I KNEW it had to be a hardware issue!

Thanks to everyone for all the help- especially you, Aus9.

Lesson: Don't buy used sound cards on Ebay!!!!!!

Ah! Sound...sound...glorious sound!

Oh dear goodness! Now another problem!

After a few minutes, the sound became intermittent; then stopped altogether. When I opened the volume control [Using Crunchbang as my OS now- it opens pavucontrol when you click on the volume icon ] the sound played normally. When I'd close-out the pavucontrol, the sound would stop again after a few seconds. Open pavucontrol...it worked again...and so forth.

Also, the volume icon is not showing the muted symbol...even though it isn't muted.

This is getting ridiculous! (But at least I know that this sound card is good....)

Anyone?

$ pulseaudio --kill

$ pulseaudio --start


Does that give the same results as using pavucontrol?

No.....it didn't give me any sound.