Re: Sound and No Sound

["Michael S. Peek" <peek@tiem.utk.edu>]

Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:47 -0400, Michael S Peek wrote:
>   
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a machine.  One user logs in (using gnome) and has sound.  The 
> > second user logs in (also using gnome) and does not.  When the second 
> > user double-clicks on the volume applet he gets the following error:
> >
> > The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control.  
> > This means that either you don't have the right GStreamer plugins 
> > installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.  You can 
> > remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the speaker 
> > icon on the panel and selecting "Remove from panel" from the menu.
> >
> > Anyone have any advice on how to track down this problem?  I figure it 
> > has to be something in the second users' environment or dot files, but I 
> > haven't a clue where to start.
> >     
>
> sudo adduser nosounduser sound
>
> Cheers.
>   

nosounduser is already a part of the audio group

Is there anything else that I can check?


Michael