Laptop volume control screw-up

[(``-_-´´) -- Fernando]

what are "friends" (of Ubuntu) for?
We all have been down that road, from time to time!!!

Just so you know, just yesterday I was reinstaling my machine from a
Feisty Herd4 to a Gutsy Tribe 3 (30-07-2007), and got and trivial
error:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/129122
Was it not thanks to a friend (www.linuxkafe.com), I would never figured it out.

On 7/30/07, Harry Wert <harry.wert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:13 +0100, (=?iso-8859-1?q?=60=60-=5F-=B4=B4?=)
> -- Fernando wrote:
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> > Hi Harry.
> > I hope I'm still on time to try to help you.
> > Right click on the sound icon, next to the hour/date panel.
> > Choose "Preferences", and select your sound card device (probably Alsa).
> > Then choose "Master". I think that you might have choosen another control, and
> > thats why it aint working.
> > Let us know how it goes.
> >
> > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 21:12:11 Harry Wert wrote:
> > > All has been well with Ubuntu Feisty release until I apparently
> > > inadvertently fouled up the laptop volume control - how I do not know.
> > > In any event I still get the on-screen display depicting volume control
> > > when I press the appropriate button; ie, "mute", "volume increase", or
> > > "volume decrease". The downside is the sound is now unaffected. I can
> > > still point to the panel which displays the volume symbol with the mouse
> > > and everything is correctly controlled.  I have done the usual looking
> > > for an "accidentally installed" mixer, but the only one I can find is
> > > the one for Gnome - which is correct.  Can anyone suggest how I can
> > > isolate this problem.  It's trivial but annoying!
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Harry
> >
> >
> >
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> Thank you very much for the response - that was the problem! Although it
> was a minor inconvenience, it was very annoying and I had overlooked the
> obvious solution. Again thanks for your time and assistance.
>
> Harry Wert
> Physicist
>
>
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