Sound Devices on Arch?

[Steve Holmes]

I just installed Arch Linux on my new laptop but I have run into something
I can't seem to figure out.  It seems that speech is working fine but I can't
play any sound files.  Alsa complains that it can't find a device.
Yet, my machine talks fine with Speakup, espeak and the espeakup connector.

When I do a 'aplay -l' I get the following:
aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found...

Any idea what I could be missing here?

Thanks for the help.