I've been wrestling with this issue for a few days now with no luck. I can't get any sound out of ALSA on my usb speakers (the only functioning speakers on my laptop) which forces me to use OSS which is subpar. ryan@lapt0p :~# cat /proc/asound/modules 0 snd_usb_audio 1 snd_intel8x0 looks fine, usb audio is loaded first and the speaker lights are on. ryan@lapt0p:~# asoundconf list Names of available sound cards: Audio I82801DBICH4 looks fine, "Audio" is the name of the device and the mixer shows it as such and I have the volume up and unmuted. Messing around with gstreamer-properties I select ALSA or ESD and hit "test" but it makes no sound, but it works fine with OSS. To test a non-gstreamer player I used mplayer: "mplayer filename.mp3 -ao oss" plays with sound, "mplayer filename.mp3 -ao alsa" plays silently. My asoundrc file is default and .asoundrc.asoundconf just has " defaults.pcm.card 1". /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base is the default. This is on Dapper, but it started when I was using Breezy and I upgraded to see if that made any difference -- it did not. If anyone has a clue what is up or even can give me a hint about where I should start looking next, it would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance. -- Cheers, -rt-