Sound card test?

[Michael Nowag]

Brian Astill wrote:

>Some kind person gave me a Dell "Dimension 8100" recently.  I'm using it now 
>and everything seems fine except ....  sound.
>
>The loudspeakers work OK from my portable radio's output plug, so they are (at 
>least more-or-less) OK.  KsCD makes all the right gestures indicating that a 
>music CD is playing, so that is probably OK, too.
>I have tried connecting to every plug on the "sound card" without success.
>
>So ...  how could I test to see if that sound card is working and complete the 
>CD->sound app->loudspeakers circuit?
>
>  
>
have you tried running alsaconf and turning mute off (and increasing the
volume to max)? have to do this at every new installation to find out
which "channels" the snd-dev uses,