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leezu: i guess this is not the problem, but just in case i mention it anyway - the user you try to run it is a member of the audio group? (because of that permission line in your output)
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leezu: how does your /proc/asound/cards look like?
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leezu: btw. did you have to add any special kernel config options when using v6.5?