ALSA support for Soundblaster AE-5 Plus was added to kernel recently
Soundblaster Creative AE-5 Plus: No sound
/source/sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132 has also been backported to earlier kernel versions
But the card is not fully supported in PulseAudio or Pipewire
I suggest you check PulseAudio socket and service
systemctl --user status pulseaudio.*
If there is an error message: GetManagedObjects() failed that would suggest Pipewire has taken control of audio device away from PulseAudio