Sound and XMMS

Hi fellow SuSERs, I'm still having trouble playing sound on my system. I have downloaded and installed the latest alsa.rpm and alsa.driver.rpm from SuSE. I have run alsaconf and everything seems ok...test sound works. I have checked that the cdrom and sound-cgip on my motherboard have direct connection. I seem to have all the relevant xmms plugins. When I run xmms it plays the actual file but no sound comes forth. I have looked in alsamixer and gamixer but as far as I can tell sound is on. On my previous redhat system I would run amixer and un-mute and then I would get sound. But amixer is not on SuSE. Anyway..I am at roads end...what am I missing?? Thomas