[solved] No volume in my Etch box!

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

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.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> .  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.



It seems the problem was due to the fact that the user did not belong to the
`audio' group.  So, it should be enough to do:

 # adduser <user> audio

, then log out and in again.

Rodolfo