ok i came here after having sou nds problems and searched and everything i tryed before i came here and after still isnt letting sound work

first i installed it and then did

alsaconf as root and got:

===============================================================================

Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

Have a lot of fun!

then i did alsamixer and jacked all the sound up to 100%

still no sound when playing in xmms even after i changed the output with ctrl+p and made it alsa

also i saw the other thread where the guy said to unistall the package and comment out the OSS values and restart ... i did that and still no sound in xmms

also i noticed at the beginning that my sound icon on top the desktop(using gnome) that it was all the way down but i couldnt change it and when i right clicked and did open volume control and got no elem mixer or devices found. i got the same error message after each step and i googled the error message and nothing really helped either

so could someone help or point me to another thread besides the unistall package one b/c ive tryed that too

Don't know if you've tried this or not, but open up your Multimedia Systems Selector applet. If possible set it to ALSA and see if this helps.

If you have GNOME 2.8.x installed you can find MSS in Applications --> Desktop Preferences --> Advanced --> Multimedia Systems Selector (I'm doing that from memory as I have DLG GNOME 2.10 installed). If you are using 2.10 select Desktop --> Preferences --> Multimedia Systems Selector.

Most of the time it is set to "Custom" as the default. I never had any sound until I set that to ALSA.

HTH,
MMYoung

i did that and i didnt know what to put but i put alsa anway and hit test and it said there was a g-streamer error? i never messed with anything g-streamer so should i try and find that package and reinstall or does this mean something else

edit: the error is
The application gstreamer-properties has quit unexpectdly