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No volume control Gstreamer plugin on Other user account

Asked by TanjyDee

Heya,

I recently started a new account for my children. However, the volume control is not working and they cannot listen to music on their account. When trying to open the volume control I receive an error message that states :

no volume control Gstreamer plugins and/or devices found.

The sound works great in my main account but I cannot resolve this issue so far. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Tanjy

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ericc (eric-cabus) said : 		#1

For each user you can allow/prevent use of sound in system/users, I encountered the same prob and found out that I had to check the option userX is allowed to use soundcard.

Hope this helps

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Best TanjyDee (tanjy-dee) said : 		#2

I had already set this. Thank you for your assistance.

The problem seems to have been solved on reboot. I hope that it was a temporary situation that will not arise again.

Tanjy

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kutta (fordownloads1) said : 		#3

me too facing same problem "no volume control Gstreamer plugins and/or devices found".I am using 7.04 and i followed as said above.Still not working for me.My sound card is not detected.its working fine under windows.any ideas welcome

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waggiddo (waggiddo) said : 		#4

kutta, I'm using good old Drapper Drake 6.06. However, I encountered that very error after creating and logging into a new account.

Try editing your '/etc/group' file to include your new account name i.e.

For a freshly created account, username: turntables,
add 'turntables' to the following entries in /etc/group

----------------<snip>-----------------------------------------
audio:x:62:waggiddo,turntables
dip:x:43:waggiddo,turntables # not had the time/strength to verify if necessary
...
video:x:89:waggiddo,turntables
...
plugdev:x:12:haldeamon,waggiddo,turntables #not had the time/strength to verify if necessary

--------------<etc>-----------------------------------------------

and yo thang should be aight, worked for me...

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Sol90 (ectsang) said : 		#5

Hi waggiddo,

I tried looking into the '/etc/group' file and I saw my user name is already in those 4 lines. However, I still get the "no volume control Gstreamer plugins and/or devices found." error message when I click on my volume control (which still has a" stop sign" on the icon).

Any idea what I'm missing?

Cheers.

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Ian Clark (blacktuzi) said : 		#6

Sol90, I'm in the same boat as you. This error message doesn't seem to give too much detail on the problem.