Ed, thanks for the hint. I hadn't done that yet, instead I installed a second soundcard (Soundblaster live) from another computer. FC2 detected allright but still I did not get sound (although multimedia applications (like xmms) play files without problems). I get no error reports. When I try to open the Volume Control I get the error reply "Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found" After running system-config-sound I had the option to play a test sound. That one I heard. Tried to play some music again with XMMS and now I here the music but volume is low. Starting the Volume Control app gives the same error report. (Volume level control in XMMS works). Then I tried the command aumix from the command line and that seems to work. Launching gnome-volume-control from the command line gives an error report : " ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin file: /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstffmpeg.so Please either: - remove it and restart. - run with --gst-disable-segtrap and debug. " So at least I get something to start investigating. If remember well gstreamer and associated packages were updated some time ago. Anyway, I have rudimentary sound control now, it keeps me busy and I learn something :-) Thanks for the tip ! Marc On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 05:16, Edward wrote: > Marc Bruggeman wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > sound on my PC has disappeared.. I am using FC2, Gnome environment and > > sound has always been working OK. A couple of days ago suddenly my PC > > went mute. > > When starting XMMS (or any other multimedia application I have > > installed) it starts up all right without error reports but no more > > sounds. Only when I try to adjust the sound level via the Volume > > Control I get the following message : "Sorry, no mixer elements and/or > > devices found" > > > > The hardware browser still recognizes the sound card hardware, So I > > guess nothing is wrong with that. > > > > My question is : How can I or what should I do to get sounds again on my > > computer ? > > > > Thanks for any advice/help, > > Marc > > Hey Marc, have you tried running system-config-sound again? > > Regards, > Ed. >
