Help -- no audio device

[Michael Miles]

On 03/21/2010 01:22 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
> My F11 box was working fine until I just recently discovered that audio no
> longer works. When I try to play audio using XMMS it says it can't open the
> audio and to check the output device, etc. The output device for XMMS is
> set to ALSA. My physical hardware is the onboard NVidia audio, which was
> working up until recently (not sure when it broke -- I don't listen to a
> lot of audio on my linux box.)
>
> Any ideas what to check? All mixers are configured to use the hardware
> output.
>    
are your system alert sounds there?

have you tried vlc?