Hi Nick, I know it's unlikely, but one other possibility is the sound card itself. A number of my RME cards (Hammerfall, HDSP 9652) actually have no mixer elements, meaning they cannot be controlled by Alsamixer, and so I get the same messages even though the cards work fine with mplayer, etc. I somehow doubt this is your case but it doesn't hurt to point out that this message can be normal.
Are you attempting to run the Gnome sound server? If there a conflict happening there? What sound hardware are you running? lspci cat /proc/asound/cards Good luck, Mark On 9/10/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I log into gnome I get a dialog with the following message: > > "Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found" > > Advcie from google and forums.g.o seems to point to the following likely > solutions: > > 1. make sure user has ability to do audio - yes I can, and everything I > run in gnome produces audio output when it should (mplayer, xmms, > mpg123, xine, whatever) > > 2. run gst-register-0.8 - done it, more than once. Doesn't complain > about any problems, but makes no difference even after a reboot. > > Thats about a summary of the suggested fixes and the results. I figured > that the error seemed to be on running gnome-volume-control, so when i > run it from an xterm I get the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/torrents/nick $ gnome-volume-control > > ** (gnome-volume-control:19921): CRITICAL **: how to remove plugins? > > (gnome-volume-control:19921): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: Factory for > `ossmixer' has no type. This probably means the plugin wasn't found > because the registry is broken. The plugin GStreamer was looking for is > named 'ossaudio' and is expected in file > '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstossaudio.so'. The registry for this plugin > is located at '/var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml' > > ** (gnome-volume-control:19921): CRITICAL **: how to remove plugins? > > (gnome-volume-control:19921): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: Factory for > `alsamixer' has no type. This probably means the plugin wasn't found > because the registry is broken. The plugin GStreamer was looking for is > named 'alsa' and is expected in file > '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstalsa.so'. The registry for this plugin is > located at '/var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml' > > > OK well it looks like something is missing. I though gst-register-0.8 > was supposed to sort all that out. > > What am I missing or what do I do to fix this? Can I safely > delete /var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml and re-run the register > program and see if that makes a difference? Or will i break something? > > > As sound is in fact working in all apps I use, its not such a worry, > just a sign that something is broken, and if something is broken it may > get worse down the track. > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
