No sound in gnome. sndconfig will discover card and drivers and test of sound is successful. Restart Gnome. or even after reboot, there is no sound in gnome. Multimedia player is closed. Mixer shows no muting. CD player shows scanning, track and play time incrementing , , , but no sound. Console sound proves hardware integrity. ESD is not running. Tried < ps aux |grep esd > with no results. Please advise.
What happens if you try to start esd?
closed due to lack of additional feedback. esd needs to be running in order to solve the problem.