[K12OSN] No Volume Control Elements and/or devices found

[Mark Cockrell]

> Gideon Romm wrote:
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>Mark-
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>try launching gstreamer-properties and make output ESD and input OSS
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>     and test the sound. 
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>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>And be sure to do this as a regular user, not root. Sound support on the
>terminals is always disabled for the root user.
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>-Eric
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>Newer versions of Gnome (and KDE) have started to use gstreamer as a
>common intermediary layer between the sound output of the applications
>and the sound hardware.  Also, check that you have all of the esound
>libraries installed on the server (thru YUM/APT).
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>Keep us posted...
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>-Gadi
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I logged in with a test account I keep around called "Peon."  As you 
might surmise this account has minimal access privileges.  Running 
gstreamer-properties and setting the output to ESD and the input to OSS 
gives the error "Failed to construct test pipeline" on both test 
buttons.  No sound in applications either.  I'm not sure what libraries 
I need to make sure are in place, but I did and "everything" install and 
have run yum/apt/up2date to make sure I'm current.  Is it possible I 
have the wrong repositories set?  I haven't modified anything manually.

-- 
C-ya,
Mark
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