Mixer applet not working

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de>]

Hi list,

I use Gnome 2.8.3 on Debian Sarge on a amd64 machine.

Sound on this box woks fine, i can play mp3s with xmms and watch movies 
with mplayer. I can also control the volume with theese apps.

What does not work, is the mixer applet in the panel. I can drag the 
slider upwards, but it immediately snaps down again.

I have not been able to find out which device file the mixer applet 
tries to use, the help is very sparse. Trying to open the volume control 
yields:

Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found

Again, which devices is it trying to open ???

Thanks for any help,

	Heinrich
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Heinrich Rebehn

University of Bremen
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