No sound with Ubuntu v7.10

austen@MotherLand:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GS (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
07:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
07:09.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
07:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
07:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
07:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)

austen@MotherLand:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
isofs 39268 0
udf 90024 0
nls_iso8859_1 6528 1
nls_cp437 8192 1
vfat 16128 1
fat 60208 1 vfat
ipv6 317192 10
af_packet 28172 2
rfcomm 47656 2
l2cap 28672 11 rfcomm
bluetooth 63876 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 11272 0
acpi_cpufreq 10632 1
cpufreq_powersave 3072 0
cpufreq_conservative 9608 0
cpufreq_ondemand 10896 1
cpufreq_stats 8160 0
freq_table 6464 3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_userspace 6048 0
container 6400 0
button 10400 0
battery 12424 0
dock 12264 0
video 21140 8
ac 7304 0
sbs 21520 0
sbp2 27144 0
parport_pc 41896 0
lp 15048 0
parport 44172 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
joydev 13440 0
snd_hda_intel 337192 5
snd_pcm_oss 50048 0
snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 94344 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 5380 0
snd_seq_oss 36864 0
arc4 3328 2
snd_seq_midi 11008 0
ecb 5248 2
blkcipher 8452 1 ecb
snd_rawmidi 29824 1 snd_seq_midi
uvcvideo 52228 0
nvidia 7013492 36
iwl4965 113512 0
compat_ioctl32 11136 1 uvcvideo
videodev 31360 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15364 2 uvcvideo,videodev
iwlwifi_mac80211 200456 1 iwl4965
xpad 11400 0
v4l2_common 21888 3 uvcvideo,compat_ioctl32,videodev
cfg80211 8720 1 iwlwifi_mac80211
sr_mod 19876 0
cdrom 41768 1 sr_mod
i2c_core 30208 1 nvidia
snd_seq_midi_event 9984 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 62496 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 27272 3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 10260 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
sdhci 21004 0
snd 69288 17 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
mmc_core 33416 1 sdhci
serio_raw 9092 0
shpchp 38300 0
pci_hotplug 36612 1 shpchp
psmouse 45596 0
soundcore 10272 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 12560 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
intel_agp 30624 0
evdev 13056 8
ext3 146576 1
jbd 69360 1 ext3
mbcache 11272 1 ext3
sg 41384 0
sd_mod 32512 5
usb_storage 81728 1
ide_core 141200 1 usb_storage
usbhid 32576 0
hid 33408 1 usbhid
ata_piix 20996 0
libusual 22824 1 usb_storage
ohci1394 38984 0
ieee1394 109528 2 sbp2,ohci1394
ahci 27012 2
ata_generic 9988 0
libata 138928 3 ata_piix,ahci,ata_generic
scsi_mod 172856 6 sbp2,sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,usb_storage,libata
r8169 36100 0
uhci_hcd 29600 0
ehci_hcd 40076 0
usbcore 161584 8 uvcvideo,xpad,usb_storage,usbhid,libusual,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
thermal 16528 0
processor 36232 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
fan 6920 0
fuse 52528 1
apparmor 47008 0
commoncap 9472 1 apparmor

First off I am a HUGE noob with Ubuntu and linux in general, this would be my first attempt at even using the OS. I have no sound and i've been cruising the fourms for answers. I have already attempted to unmute everything and i have played around enough with the mixers. Someone mentioned using this command

austen@MotherLand:~$ cat /dev/urandom > /dev/audio
bash: /dev/audio: Device or resource busy

And that is what i received.
I've also played around with both ALSA and OSS but with no avail. Again I am very new to this so I'm trying my best, appolgies for anything i have messed up in my explaination. Thanks.

I've also attempted to delete the .asoundrc* files and believe i succeeded in this but not quite sure. I also performed this command--

1) sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
2) sudo chmod 666 /dev/snd/*

"Then go back to System->Preferences->Sound and hit TEST. You should hear a beep."

But to no avail.