Sound Blaster Play on Ubuntu

Haven't been able to listen to audio for quite awhile on my Ubuntu.
I finally got myself a Sound Blaster Play.
It didn't worked by just simply plugged.
Calling alsamixer, the sound card used by the system is the default Intel one, not recognizing the Sound Blaster.

So, I tried changing the default sound card, by what's instructed in this post
1. cat /proc/asound/modules
see your default sound card name
2. sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
options snd_hda_intel index=1 #change default sound card index to 1
3. reboot

After rebooting, I still couldn't here any sounds.
I couldn't even open alsamixer anymore... =____=;;;
And finally it was solved by opening gnome-volume-control and unmute the sound
I'm using wmii, so I don't have any sound bar, I wonder if the problem was just because it was muted...
But oh well, now I can listen to audio, nevermind what was it...