[PLUG] More sound issues

[User Iam]

On 7/8/06, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> So I poured 4 cubic yards of concrete for a patio this morning. That
> is, me with a broken hand and two helpers. Mostly I just jumped up and
> down yelling "more over here," and occasionally fetching someone a tool
> with my one functioning limb. My most useful purpose came when it was
> time to pay the bill. <Side note: People into computers should never,
> ever, get on a roof. Consider this: As a teenager when you land on the
> ground (speed increasing at 32 feet per second, if I recall correctly
> from high school physics), you bounce. After age 25 your arrival at
> ground zero more closely mimics that of a watermelon.>
>
> Now all I want to do is open the organic India pale ale supplied by the
> local New Seasons market and watch a movie. OK, it's a B rated sci-fi
> thing I got on sale, but after a while the beer will improve it. I'm
> tired. I don't care.
>
> Except that the sound card is not functioning properly. <sigh>
>
> Previously I had observed that Firefox was the culprit. I never had
> this problem under Breezy because under Breezy I never got the sound
> plugin working in Firefox. So I closed Firefox. Last time that solved
> the problem. This time it does not.
>
> "OK," I thought. "I'll modprobe the soundcard. That'll probably wake it
> up." Wait ... what is the soundcard called? Crap. I have no idea what
> the driver is called, or even how to find out what it is called.
>
> OK, I know if I shut down and reboot the sound card will be working
> again. But that's just wrong. I'm trying to learn Linux here. I need to
> figure this stuff out.
>
> If I right click on the sound icon in the Gnome panel, it says "no
> volume control, Gstreamer plugins and/or devices found." Please note
> that I usually have sound muted. Ubuntu is rather noisy when it boots.
> Not cool in the library at PSU. However, right-clicking on the icon and
> then on "mute" toggles it on and off. This time it just gives me the
> above error message.
>
> Opening Firefox and going to about:plugins I find that I have
> mozplugger installed twice. Is that possible? Guess so. Somehow, I have
> it installed twice. At least it's listed twice. The entries are
> identical. Googling off to mozplugger, I find nothing that clarifies
> the issue.
>
> OK, that's it. Gonna reboot. Meantime, if someone has any genius ideas
> that will help me figure out what is wrong, please let me know.
> Tomorrow morning, after a strong cup of coffee, perhaps I'll even
> understand what you say.








Try

lspci

That should list your sound card..

HTH

User Iam