Bug#514533: gnome-media: volume control claims no devices found but sound works perfectly

[Chris Carr]

Package: gnome-media
Version: 2.22.0-3
Severity: normal

This is an Acer emachines D620 laptop with ATi SB sound chip (Intel HDA, 
ALC268 Analog codec). After a bit of fiddling (setting model=acer in /etc/
modprobe.d/sound, sorting permissions), sound is working fine for all users
(tested on Sound Juicer for CDs and Rhythmbox for streaming audio over the 
net - volume controls work fine in both). Even the Fn-Up and Fn-Down 
keys work as volume up and down. 

But the Gnome volume control icon (top right panel, by the clock) has a red
x on it, and when I double-click it, it says:

"No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found."

I don't understand this, since everything which is required for controlling
volume is installed and working correctly.

Grateful if this could be forwarded (if it is actually a bug), or if someone
could tell me what is missing or misconfigured (if it's not).

Many thanks,

CC

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.4-eastfield (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-media depends on:
ii  gnome-media-common     2.22.0-3          GNOME media utilities - common fil
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.19-2         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.19-2         GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.8-4.1~lenny1 GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libesd0                0.2.36-3          Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-media0        2.22.0-3          runtime libraries for the GNOME me
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.19-2         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.19-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 

gnome-media recommends no packages.

gnome-media suggests no packages.

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