Re: 3. Attempt: Panel volume control no longer working after 2.6->2.8

[Todd Chambery <chambery suppressingfire org>]

Hi,

I had some sound problems when upgrading Ubuntu from Warty to Hoary.  
The solution (sort of... things still aren't quite right) was to turn 
off ESD in the sound preferences.  I found the answer in the Ubuntu forums:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=5923&highlight=esd+sound

Hope that helps,

Todd

Heinrich Rebehn wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I am posting this for the third time now.
> Does nobody else have this problem?
> Do you need any more information?
>
>
> after my upgrade from 2.6 to 2.8.0 the volume control in the panel does
> no longer work. If i operate the slider, it immediately snaps back to
> zero when released. If i select "Open volume control" i get "Sorry, no
> mixer elements and/or devices found". Permissions on /dev/snd and
> /dev/sound are ok:
>
> rebehn bremerhaven [~]: ls -l /dev/snd /dev/sound
> /dev/snd:
> total 0
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 116,  0 Jan  1  1970 controlC0
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 116, 24 Jan  1  1970 pcmC0D0c
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 116, 16 Jan  1  1970 pcmC0D0p
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 116, 25 Jan  1  1970 pcmC0D1c
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 116, 26 Jan  1  1970 pcmC0D2c
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 116, 27 Jan  1  1970 pcmC0D3c
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 116, 20 Jan  1  1970 pcmC0D4p
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 116, 33 Jan  1  1970 timer
>
> /dev/sound:
> total 0
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 14, 12 Jan  1  1970 adsp
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 14,  4 Jan  1  1970 audio
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 14,  3 Jan  1  1970 dsp
> crw-------  1 rebehn root 14,  0 Jan  1  1970 mixer
> rebehn bremerhaven [~]:
>
> Also, alsamixer works fine and i can play mp3 files with xmms.
>
> Any ideas?