Re: sound problems with gnome

[POLONKAI Gergely <polesz w00d5t0ck info>]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:14:22AM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote:
> Hello list,
> I have recently installed debian testing, created a (TEMPORARY) user
> account, logged in and all was fine. However, since my home directory
> is on a network file server and my real acount is controlled by NIS,
> when I logged in as a regular user the sound does not work and when
> openning the mixer applet I get "No volume control elements and/or
> devices found.". This leads me to think that something in my .gnome*
> is causing this so I delted them all but that did not help. It seems
> there is some wrong configuration stored somewhere. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Eli
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Maybe you are not in the audio group, so you cannot read/write the
corresponding /dev files. That was the problem for me.

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