[solved?] No volume in my Etch box!
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
> On my laptop I installed x-window-system-core and gnome-core and the volume
> control small icon top right on Gnome desktop looks all right. Instead, on
> my desktop PC the same icon is not active, and when I left-click it the
> following message appears:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This
> means either that 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.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> . When I right-click, the following message appears:
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Failed to start Volume Control: Failed to execute child process
> "gnome-volume-control" (No such file or directory)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> . Do you think that the sound card is not recognized by Etch? I hope not.
> Does anyone please have any suggestion? I don't know what to do.
The problem disappeared since I installed the gnome-media package. But on my
laptop this package is not installed and the problem does not exist. One more
strange thing is that even with this problem, without installing gnome-media,
the volume is heared fine! But you can't control it, of course.
Rodolfo
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