no sound only in totem

using ubuntu9.04 on an asus intel dual core motherboard with integrated sound. Totem never produces sound even for ogg or wav files. While all other applications (vlc, gxine, mplayer, audacity etc) produce sound well.
Running totem from the command line produced this error

kussh@desktop:~$ totem 11.ogg

(totem:12812): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_set_caps: assertion `caps == NULL || gst_caps_is_fixed (caps)' failed

(totem:12812): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_set_caps: assertion `caps == NULL || gst_caps_is_fixed (caps)' failed
** Message: Error: Internal data stream error.
gstoggdemux.c(3151): gst_ogg_demux_loop (): /GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstOggDemux:oggdemux0:
stream stopped, reason not-linked

cat /proc/asound/cards gave this information

kussh@desktop:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfe978000 irq 16
 1 [default ]: USB-Audio - USB AUDIO
                      USB AUDIO at usb-0000:00:1d.1-1, full speed