I can't change audio/volume preferences?

Question

When I click to sound icon on the panel, I have 3 options:

"Mute all" is gray and could not be clicked

Slider - I can slide but it DOESNT change anything

Preferences - Shows this

(waiting for the response from audio device), but it doesn't show anything for more than a hour

This is from aplay -l :

root@fb:~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC272 Analog [ALC272 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevices #0: subdevice #0
karta 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevices #0: subdevice #0
root@fb:~#

What's wrong?

Prince John Wesley · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-23T16:06:15.523

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Problem is that pulseaudio daemon is not running.

Go to Startup Applications

Click on Add.
Click on Browse and select /usr/bin/pulseaudio and click on Add.

Finally logout and then login the system.

edited Jun 23 '11 at 16:06

answered Jun 23 '11 at 16:00

Prince John Wesley

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nickguletskii · Answer 2 · 2011-06-23T15:38:39.937

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This doesn't work in root.

Working as root is heavily discouraged. Please use an "administrative" account (an account that can use sudo and equivalents) instead.

edited Jun 23 '11 at 15:38

answered Jun 23 '11 at 15:30

nickguletskii

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@genesis Sorry, you what? – nickguletskii Jun 23 '11 at 15:31
@genesis: you don't need a root account to run and administrate Ubuntu. It is strongly discouraged: http://askubuntu.com/questions/16178/why-is-it-bad-to-run-as-root – Takkat Jun 23 '11 at 15:38
I DO NOT MIND ABOUT THIS. It's not what I asked – genesis Jun 23 '11 at 16:25
@genesis It is directly related to your problem. – nickguletskii Jun 23 '11 at 16:31
but it can be work-arounded – genesis Jun 23 '11 at 16:31
@genesis Why use workarounds if there is a proper solution to a problem? – nickguletskii Jun 23 '11 at 16:34
because I like using root rather than just admin account – genesis Jun 23 '11 at 16:35
@genesis Why? It only causes problems - e.g. some applications will refuse to run (like VLC) – nickguletskii Jun 23 '11 at 16:35
@nick: yes, that's bad, I have to switch it in case I want to run VLC ... – genesis Jun 23 '11 at 17:32

I can't change audio/volume preferences?

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