Volume control problems

[bloch at verdurin.com]

<quote who="Mike Chambers">
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 08:08 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
>
>> I ran into this error message setting up pulseaudio on an F7 system when
>> I was trying to run the pulseaudio daemon system-wide.  In my case, it
>> was because /dev/snd/* wasn't readable by the daemon (which runs under
>> the user "pulse" when running in system-wide mode).  Not sure if this
>> might be your problem.
>
> root is owner/group of that path, so not sure what pulse is running
> under or if that is the problem.
>

I have what seems to be a fairly similar problem, listed in

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=290151