The problem seemed to be the device being busy or unavailable. Check your session to see if any application is running in the background, using alsa, if there is you can kill it and then run `asound.conf set- default-card <card_name>` in my case Intel and that was it.
-- No Sound in Edgy ref: amarok, rythmbox https://launchpad.net/bugs/83962 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
