Re: New install - no sound

["Matthew A. Nicholson" <matt@matt-land.com>]

You didn't follow my directions...  First make sure you are part of the 
audio group, you generally should just "be root".

adduser mynamehere audio

Then run alsamixer as that user and make sure the sound is at a 
resonable level.  If it works as root then it should work as user if you 
have the right permissions.  You should not need to manually run esd.

Russ Cook wrote:
> Udev was already installed - I confirmed with Aptitude.  Executing
> the command 'modprobe snd_intel8x0' made no difference.  When I click on 
> volume control under the sound and Video menu item of Gnome, I get the
> error message "No volume control elements and/or devices found."  When
> I try to play a file using Rythmbox 0.8.8, I get the message "Could not 
> create
> audio output element; check your settings".    When I clicked on the 
> "volume
> monitor" under the Sound and Video menu item of Gnome, I get the
> error message "Cannot connect to sound daemon.  Please run 'esd' at a
> command prompt."  From a terminal as root, I execute esd, and get a
> momentary tone sequence.  I then tried again to play a file under
> Rythmbox, and get the same error message "Could not create audio output
> element; check your settings".  This certainly appears to be a 
> configuration
> issue, but I don't know what the problem is or how to fix it.  As 
> always, any
> help or pointers to references would be greatly appreciated.


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Matthew A. Nicholson
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