silly ALSA sound problem

[michelle <no_emale_reply@nada.nyet>]

I can't get any sound to play. I'm using sarge, with ALSA 0.96
/proc shows 3 "sound cards"
        0  Dummy
        1  Virtual MIDI
        2  Live

2 is my SBLive card. However, there's no sound, perhaps because it's muted 
by default? But with alsamixer all I can bring up is Dummy. So how do I get 
this to work?