I had the same problem of no indication of a default sound card in the "Sound Preferences" menu. I solved this by adding the name of the current user to the list of users in the audio group, in the file "/etc/group". Suggestion: should this not be done automatically when adding new users with "useradd"?
-- gnome-sound-properties empty "Default sound card:" list https://launchpad.net/bugs/48545 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
