[LAU] Hi there!! Presentation & questions :)

Hi !! Well, first of all, sorry for my "english" :) PRESENTATION: I have a problem (explained at the bottom) and looking for information to solve it I've just come across this list and... I have to join it, so hello everyone!! It's great to have a common place for linux audio people :) About myself, I'm a linux user and guitarrist basically, and I have made the decision to use for my recordings and "experiments" 100% free software only, given the maturity of the actual audio apps and sound technology in Linux :) If you are curious, you can hear my first recordings (of hopefully many to come!) made with 100% free tools: http://virb.com/spes As you can see I listen to many different styles and artists, from Hendrix to Dream Theater :) -------------- PROBLEM Now, the problem I'm trying to solve, and sure any of you could help me :) I've just aquired a Maudio Delta66 (yes!! :D), and I know it's ok and correctly connected, because it works in winXP (after rebooting twice, etc, etc... hehe), but I have no sound here in Linux, and as I use only Linux daily, and I also want to set up home recording studio, I *need* to fix this... INFORMATION: I was using a onboard device, so I plugged the Delta, and disabled the motherboard audio device on the BIOS, and restart... I'm using Kubuntu 7.10. I installed alsa-utils-gui, wich has the envy24control GUI mixer, what the delta66 needs (ice1712 driver). I can see the device with lspci -v: 05:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. M-Audio Delta 66 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 I/O ports at ec00 [size=32] I/O ports at e880 [size=16] I/O ports at e800 [size=16] I/O ports at e480 [size=64] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 1 And I can also see the modules loaded in the kernel: # lsmod |grep 1712 snd_ice1712 65140 3 snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 5120 1 snd_ice1712 snd_ak4xxx_adda 8832 2 snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx snd_cs8427 9984 1 snd_ice1712 snd_ac97_codec 100644 1 snd_ice1712 snd_pcm 80388 4 snd_ice1712,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_i2c 6656 2 snd_ice1712,snd_cs8427 snd_mpu401_uart 9600 1 snd_ice1712 snd 54660 19 snd_ice1712,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_cs8427,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_i2c,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device And I don't see any error or message in dmesg. I also can "see" in envy24control the signal of the music when I play it with mplayer / Amarok / Ardour / etc... in PCMout1 and PCMout2, and also in the Mixer L&R if I unmute it. I'm routing HWout1 to PCMout1 and HWout2 to PCMout2, so it should be sending the sound to the physical outs1&2 of the breakout box, right? (as I've got it connected)... but I got no sound at all... Does anyone has any idea about what can happen here?? Do I need to do anything *special* to enable or unmute the card under Linux/Kubuntu/Alsa?? Any experience with this card, anyone?? :) Thanks very much in advance!! Jorge.