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[OCLUG-Tech] Debian 3.1 Sarge: no sound in GNOME

Hi all,
Slight problem: I'm running GNOME in Debian 3.1 (stable) and I have no sound whatsoever. When I right click on the volume control panel applet and press the "Open volume control" option, I get the following message:

"Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found."

If I press on "preferences" I get an empty dialog box.

An lsmod output looks like this:

sidewinder:/home/grgaud# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
radeon                 94176   0
apm                     8428   1  (autoclean)
parport_pc             19432   1  (autoclean)
lp                      5540   0  (autoclean)
parport                21608   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
af_packet              11048   1  (autoclean)
printer                 6912   0
mousedev                3604   1
hid                    19076   0  (unused)
input                   3040   0  [mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd               14764   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               19504   0  (unused)
usbcore                52268   1  [printer hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
via82cxxx_audio        17404   1
ac97_codec             11252   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401                 5860   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
sound                  48872   0  [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore               3268   4  [via82cxxx_audio sound]
ide-scsi                8272   0
sata_via                2200   0  (unused)
libata                 21732   0  [sata_via]
scsi_mod               86052   2  [ide-scsi sata_via libata]
via-rhine              10960   1
mii                     1952   0  [via-rhine]
crc32                   2848   0  [via-rhine]
ide-cd                 27072   0
cdrom                  26212   0  [ide-cd]
rtc                     5768   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   65388   2  (autoclean)
jbd                    34628   2  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect               288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
via82cxxx               9256   1  (autoclean)
ide-disk               12448   3  (autoclean)
ide-core 91832 3 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect via82cxxx ide-disk]
unix                   12752 278  (autoclean)

I've got an MSI moboard with the VIA chipset, sound card on board. It works with other distros, so it should work with Debian. In fact, it works when I use KDE (same distro), so it should work with GNOME. Don't know what the problem is, though I've tried to find it. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

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GR Gaudreau
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Fear is the mother of all religions.

I don't believe in God for the same
reasons I don't believe in Mother Goose.