Help. Cannot change sound volume

[Neil Watson]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:10:03PM -0400, Marc Lanctot wrote:
> What distro are you using? Some need the current user to be in the  
> sound/audio group. What are your permissions on /dev/dsp?

Debian

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  24 2009-04-26 13:32 /dev/sndstat -> /proc/asound/oss/sndstat

/dev/snd:
total 0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  0 2009-04-26 13:32 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  4 2009-04-26 13:32 hwC0D0
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116,  6 2009-04-29 13:17 hwC0D2
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  8 2009-04-26 13:32 midiC0D0
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116,  9 2009-04-29 13:17 midiC0D1
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116, 10 2009-04-29 13:17 midiC0D2
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 24 2009-04-29 13:17 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 16 2009-04-29 15:20 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 25 2009-04-26 13:32 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 26 2009-04-26 13:32 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 18 2009-04-26 13:32 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 19 2009-04-26 13:32 pcmC0D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  1 2009-04-26 13:32 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 2009-04-26 13:32 timer

audio:x:29:neil

This problem persists even after reboots.

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Neil Watson
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