Gnome suddenly doesn't recognize sound card

[JVincent08]

Everything was working fine, and then I rebooted to fiddle around with a LiveCD (which was able to play sound) and then upon booting back into my FC8 installation, gnome is giving me this error whenever I try to turn up the volume:

The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.

I certainly have the right gstreamer plugins installed. I think it must be Gnome because the test in system-config-soundcard plays ("Soundcard Detection") plays fine. Any ideas?

EDIT: When running as root, it works fine.

[bobescalin2005]

Please give more details! First try this:

#alsaconf

If it`s not working please post back your reply for this:

#lspci

Cheers!

[JVincent08]

I don't have alsaconf installed, and I can't seem to find a download for it anywhere (I'm on FC8 ). I have the alsa-utils package installed though.

lspci gives me this:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100 GS (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)

(The emphasis is mine, of course)

[daark.child]

Fedora does not incude alsaconf. Try using system-config-soundcard.

[JVincent08]

Fedora does not incude alsaconf. Try using system-config-soundcard.

In the OP I said system-config-soundcard detected the card and the test works, but I still am unable to play anything using any apps, unless I'm logged in as root. And its not a gnome issue because I still get the same problem under all my other environments.

Edit: I take that back. Xine, Amarok, and I'm assuming other Xine based programs play fine. Banshee still can't however, and the volume control in Gnome doesn't work.

[daark.child]

Many people have had audio problems with Fedora 8. Try some of the fixes suggested here. Also search on google for "fedora+8+gnome+audio", for more possible solutions.

[JVincent08]

I've tried all of those, and I've followed instructions in many different threads on this. It seems to be a bug in some updated package, but no one is able to pinpoint which one. For now, I'll just run any audio programs as root until a fix comes out. Thanks guys.