Sound problems (user not root)

[José Matos]

On Friday 07 December 2007 06:07:38 Antonio M wrote:
> After updating, my sound isbroken.I have the loudspeaker disable,, if
> I click on it I get the message that no plugin of Gstreamer has been
> found or device for sound regulation!!
> Soundcard is o.k because I get sound by sound recognition tool.
> But if I log as root it is o.k.

  I have the same problem with kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8

$ pulseaudio
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1207:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
E: module-alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such device
E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device=hw:0 
sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_266e_alsa_playback_0"): initialization failed.
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1207:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
E: module-alsa-source.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such device
E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-source" 
(argument: "device=hw:0 
source_name=alsa_input.pci_8086_266e_alsa_capture_0"): initialization failed.

$ timidity -iA
TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: Permission 
denied
error in snd_seq_open

  kmix does not show any mixer and so on.

  This bug appeared before during the test stage of Fedora 8 and can be found 
in pulseaudio component.

  I am not sure what is the culprit...  :-(

> What's going on???
>
>
> --
> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : antoniomontag

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José Abílio