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Did you come from a red hat distro? If so, you may need to plug the speakers into one of the other jacks. Redhat and Fedora output from the mic jack on mine and Slackware outputs sound from the speaker out jack.
next, does Alsconf detect your card when you run it? If not, try updating Alsa and the Kernel to the same update (IE 9.1 or current) with Swaret, reboot, run alsaconf again.
also in xmms although I am using alsa I have to choose the oss setting for some reason, I think it has to do with the alsa-oss-compatibility or something.
Make sure that you are running alsamixr as "root". I know that you are able to run it as a user, but it will not save your settings. I had to run "alsamixer" as root, and unmute then turn everything all the way up, and the run "alsactl store" and my sound started working. After that I was able to turn things down until I figured out what settings worked for me card.
Do you hear system sound ok?
I have alsa noticed unclear sound from my left speaker, but I have not been able to track down anything clear on that. I just played with the mixer until it got a little better.
You can also verify if all the alsa-packages you have installed on your system are from the same version. I once have this problem after a swaret update.
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