problems with sound card

[v00d00doc]

initially i cannot play any music
as root if i run volume control in the sound&video of applications
i see that some are muted
if i unmute them i am able to play music
but for every time i boot into gentoo i have to do this
but this only works as root
when i try to run volume control as a user it shows the following message
"No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"
why am i unable to do this as user .. i am unable to listen to music as a user?
I need to login as root and unmute in the volume control evrytime to listen to music
also "su" is not working
it keeps saying permission denied
why is this so?

should i install alsa and try alsaconf??
if so how.. coz "emerge" does not work here keeps getting timed out
also we have a lot of connection problems so how to use "emerge"
/var/cache can u please help me out

[multios]

What sound card do you have?
"lsmod |grep ^snd"
Have you tried using alsamixer or aumix?

[v00d00doc]

this is what the command gives

snd_hda_intel 11956 4
snd_hda_codec 101120 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 45156 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 14212 2 snd_pcm
snd 30564 10 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 6024 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

[multios]

Do this as root:
lspci | grep -i audio

btw-did you list yourself in the audio group of /etc/group?

Some reading for you perhaps (if you haven't already):
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Co...cludes_dmix%29


Perhaps try:
http://forums.gentoo.org/index.php