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No volume control

Asked by Dale Winchell

Just had ubuntu installed. tried to play cd and appears to play but no sound. The speaker icon on desktop has red x next to it. right click on red x and it says "no volume control elements and or devices found". How do I fix this. I am new to linux.

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Riku Eskelinen (kingi89) said : 		#1

Please give some information about your hardware. You can do that in Terminal by typing "lspci" and pasteing the result here.

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Dale Winchell (dwinchell) said : 		#2

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10)
0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: OPTi Inc. EV1935 ECTIVA MachOne PCIAudio (rev 10)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS
dale@ubuntu:~$

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Riku Eskelinen (kingi89) said : 		#3

Are you in "audio" group, ie do you have the necessary privileges to use sound devices? You can find it by selecting System » Maintenance » Users and Groups, then select your username and click Properties, select the User's Rights and check that you have enabled the "to use sound devices" checkbox.

(I'm using Feisty in Finnish so I'm not sure about the exact names of the menus etc.)

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Dale Winchell (dwinchell) said : 		#4

Yes, that box is already checked for my user name.

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Best Dale Winchell (dwinchell) said : 		#5

replaced sound card-problem fixed. thank you for the help.