What output plugin did you select in xine? It seems this is more a hardware or driver problem as you should have /dev/dsp in any case...
What's the output of asoundconf list ? -- Banshee, xmms and others don't play music https://launchpad.net/bugs/59803 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs