Bug#348285: gnome: Can't detect volume control

[Loïc Minier]

reassign 348285 gnome-media
stop

        Hi,

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006, Joseph Smidt wrote:
> I installed etch from testing cd, then I upgraded to unstable.  I put in
> an audio cd and the default audio player "totem" plays the cd but there
> is no sound.  As soon as I rebooted the system an error message popped
> on the screen saying "No volume control detected" and the volume icon in
> gnome is a speaker with an x-ed out symbol.  I take it that gnome can't
> detect a volume control so I hear no sound.

 Are you using "OSS" or "ALSA" for sound output?  Could you try with a
 more recent GNOME and Kernel (2.6.15) to switch to ALSA with the
 gstreamer-properties program? (it's in gnome-media)

   Cheers,

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Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
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