no volume control

[m4tic]

My hard drive has been giving me a problem, after a failed proper login my gnome-panel did not load. After a reboot i got it back but my volume control was not there. Clicking on Sound in System-->Preferences gives "Waiting for sound system to respond". I have restarted a lot of times, i have sound but i just cannot adjust it.

[jmszr]

m4tic,

Right click on an empty space on panel > click on Add to Panel > scroll down to "Notification Area" > Add. That should do it.

[llamabr]

You can also adjust it via the terminal with alsamixer

[jmszr]

Speaking of which, you can also

sudo apt-get install alsamixergui

which you can then access through Applications > Sound & Video, come to think of it.

[m4tic]

notification area thing did not work, i got it back by deleting

~/.pulse

the path should recreate again within a second and so is the volume applet on the panel. I should've seen this from the output

user@userpc:~$ pulseaudio
E: core-util.c: Failed to stat runtime directory ~/.pulse/33ac8da344bd6c5cfdd48de04b4f68b4-runtime: Invalid argument

I think this fix should be looked at and included somewhere in the pulseaudio tutorials or something

[m4tic]

I tested this on a machine which had no sound after upgrade to Lucid Alpha 1, it worked also. Also when playing something like audacious, it used to show an error message at /var/log/messages.

[anur.bhargav]

m4tic,

Right click on an empty space on panel > click on Add to Panel > scroll down to "Notification Area" > Add. That should do it.

Thanks a ton.... i got back all my icons back(Volume control applet,Network Manager Applet,etc.....)