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I started to use Gnome recently under my Debian Squeeze and I noticed that I have no sound in flash (youtube) as well as in vlc. Well, it seems like I need to configure my .asoundrc with the proper card id. Here is a nice command which allows you to enum your devices:

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: default [Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

In my case I am going to use 3 as I am going to use Microsoft USB headphones to listen music. It might be different in your case. So, create file ~/.asoundrc with the following content:

pcm.!default {
	type hw
	card 3
}

ctl.!default {
	type hw           
	card 3
}

Save the file and try to check if you have sound.

Update: If by some reason your card id gets changing after reboots, follow this article to fix the issue: http://www.shcherbyna.com/?p=2004