OK, well after a little more fiddling, I've got it working again. Here is what I did: 1) First I created a new user account but this time through the gnome menus (Administration->Users & Groups), and made sure that 'Use audio devices' was checked on the 'User privileges' tab in the settings. 2)Then I logged into this account and found that the sound worked. So then I copied the .gstreamer-0.10/registry.i486.xml file from this account into my old account. Now audio works fine in both accounts.
I'm not sure why the audio didn't work the first time I created a new account, I would have thought it would have enabled audio by default. Anyway, thanks for all the attempted help. आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ,--[ On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:54:03PM +0000, Joe Bloggs wrote: > > [...] > > | > | Tried replacing gnome .config files with backups but didn't work. Also > tried alsaconfig (and have tried previously); it always goes through the > procedures as though there are no problems, but then no sound. Also tried > making a new user account, but sound didn't work in that either. > > Are you doing this in GNOME ? And, is ESD enabled in GNOME ? If not, > disable it by deselecting in "Sounds" tab of "Sound Preferences" > (System->Preferences->Sound) . To assure that no ESD is not running > execute 'killall esd'. > > Rename any '.asoundrc' in $HOME to something else. > > Now execute "alsamixer" on terminal, and see if "PCM", "Front", and "Wave" > playback controls are not muted and not zeroed. > > If you've any .WAV files, try playing them using: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] aplay file.wav > > If you don't have any .wav files, use: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] aplay `which aplay` > > This will produce some noise, which you can cancel by pressing Ctrl+C . > If you still didn't get hear any noise, post output of 'dmesg' . > > HTH > -- > Ashish Shukla "Wah Java !!" > आशीष शुक्ल > > weblog: http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ > > ,= ,-_-. =. | DRMs are often designed by ambitious, well-funded consortia, | > ((_/)o o(\_)) | with top-notch engineers from every corner of the industry. | > `-'(. .)`-' | They spend millions. They take years. They are defeated in | > \_/ | days, for pennies, by hobbyists. - Cory Doctorow | > > The best optimizer is between your ears. > - Michael Abrash > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
