On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:02 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello. After a recent upgrade of Etch, I find I have no sound. The
> volume control thingy on the top panel of gnome suddenly had a red x
> beside it, and, when I pressed it, it gave me the following error:
>
> "The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control.
> This means either that you do not have the right GStreamer plugins
> installed, or that you do not have a sound card configured.
>
> You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the
> speaker icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the
> menu."
>
>
> So, has anyone else had this issue recently? I tried running alsaconf,
> and installing various gstreamer stuff, but to no avail.
Okay, gstreamer is basically for handling sound and video formats
through the alsa and X sub-systems.
Since you have Video, I assume this because you talk about "little red
Xs" we have to run the audio stuffs.
Firstly: Are you a part of the "audio" group? If not, that will make
everything cranky. You can fix this by adding yourself to the audio
group. It'll just say "The user <user> is already a member of audio"
example:
princess:~# adduser greg audio
The user `greg' is already a member of `audio'.
Secondly: we need to see the output of:
dpkg -l | grep alsa
Thirdly: you say you use alsconf. What kind of audio card does it come
up with? Are you sure the snd-<detected audio card> modules are loaded.
Also, is something else grabbing a hold of the "OSS" emulation stuff and
therefore you aren't getting output otherwise?
Fourthly: After you run alsaconf and before you run *ANY* sound
application, I need to see the output of this:
lsmod | grep snd
The once you run a sound app, please include the same:
lsmod | grep snd
Also, since you have said errors fly, please also include those.
Until we see this output it'll be hard to diagnose it, unless you
somehow where taken out of the "audio" group, which is an easy fix.
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