I have recently suffered a mysterious failure in my sound card that was working perfectly (es1371) and the modules are still being loaded and I am in the audio group and the permissions are writable etc and YET the damn thing does not work...I should point out i am doing this with a head set and not a amplified speaker system. mpeg123 claims it is playing the files. I did test the headset on my radio..and they work. Maybe pulling the sound card out and putting it in again (possibly into another slot would work)...
ARe there any tools that can probe the card to see whether certain settings have somehow been turned off??? How does a sound card actually work... -walter ps. Annoyed that sound doesn't work.... Any references would be appreciated.