I have the same problem. Not a muting issue. Rebooting under Windows verified that the sound card works. I also enabled the integrated audio on my motherboard and selected that audio instead with the same results on Ubuntu... no sound. So, it appears it's not just the Soundblaster card.
Investigating the /var/log/messages I did find the following: Jan 16 10:10:39 hostname pulseaudio[2653]: ratelimit.c: 91310 events suppressed Jan 16 10:10:44 hostname pulseaudio[2653]: ratelimit.c: 90444 events suppressed Jan 16 10:10:49 hostname pulseaudio[2653]: ratelimit.c: 93767 events suppressed Jan 16 10:10:54 hostname pulseaudio[2653]: ratelimit.c: 90311 events suppressed Jan 16 10:11:14 hostname pulseaudio[2653]: ratelimit.c: 11909 events suppressed Please let me know if any further info is needed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668432 Title: [Audigy2 - SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]] ALSA test tone not correctly played back, no sound being played on any application -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
