resetting audio in gnome

[Stephen Clower]

Hi Will,

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, the problem is that sound 
isn't being heard, not the inability to load orca. I've had orca up and 
running on the machine since January, so it's probably safe to assume 
it's speaking even though nothing is being heard. I suspect something 
happened to the ESD mixer since that's the output port I selected in the 
gnome audio preferences. If I could reset these values to their 
defaults, that would probably solve the problem. Would a complete 
removal of gnome and reinstallation from the ubuntu repository do the 
trick? Seems like overkill to fix such a small problem, but I'm willing 
to do that if it's my only option left.

- All my best,
- Steve