UNIX - remove "There is no sound card" message

Hi

I am running XBMC 11 on Ubuntu 12.4. This is my first Linux experience so please bear with me.

When starting XMBC from a terminal In noticed that it throws a message "there is no sound card" when starting up.

This seems to irritate the remote control daemon that I am using to start XBMC, it seems to intercept this message and does not continue to process IR commands.

Is there a way to start XBMC without getting this message?

I tried to redirect the output to /dev/null but it still gets printed to the terminal.

Thank you, any help is greatly appreciated.

Martin