Some more details:
In X: aplay -l
aplay: device_list:256: no soundcards found...
In VC: aplay -l
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
lspci -v gives the same result
This is an up-to-date, PulseAudio-less F18/Xfce running on an eeepc.
In an xterm, mplayer -ao alsa ... says
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4246:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
snd_func_card_driver returned error: Permission denied
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