Quote Originally Posted by hardbop200
Someone may have already covered this, but I believe that ALSA mixer settings are muted by default, thus even if ALSA was correctly configuring your sound card, you still wouldn't hear anything. From the ALSA Wiki:

# amixer set Master 100 unmute
# amixer set PCM 100 unmute
Yeah, I understand this. But the fact XMMS says my soundcard is not even properly detected urges me to think that's not a problem with volume muting. Anyway, I had also tried to set volume levels, but no results