Hello

I tried many linux already and 40% does have a problem with sound. The first thing I try when installing Linux is to go to Youtube so see if they did their work.
Now with PC/OS I do have the movie so flash is working, ... but no sound.

In most cases I am unable to solve this problem. I went looking everywhere to see where I could configure sound as this should be easy with an out of the box distro but ehh, I do not find it?
Was it forgotten to develop or do I need some IT course to manage Terminal?

Does anyone knows how I can manage sound or solve this problem? I really would appreciate some help

I also have a second problem with the panel, I can not open Firefox or in fact anything as I always get the message Failed to laund and also Failed to change to directory '/home/workstation' (No such file or directory).
How to solve this?

Now I can open Panel to manage items I would like to add but the help shows the possibility to add items to is with Launcher but where do I find this piece of software as it is unavailable

thanks

Hello,

I am not a tech so I will try to provide 'my 2 cents'. Hope they will be useful.
Sound: I use pc-os (Opendesktop 2009v2a)on three different machines and sound was configured properly in all of them. Anyway settings are reachable from Application-Settings-Settings Manager-Sound. Your audio device should be listed there (generally the default choice is ok) and all the controls ticked properly. Volume can be managed from the tray icon on the bottom right side of the taskbar. Using Gnome Desktop the same should be under System-Preferences.

For the firefox issue here is how I have done it (always Opendesktop 2009v2a; on OpenWorkstation Firefox Launcher should already be staying on the taskbar) :
-Right click on taskbar 'add new item' option ->choose 'launcher' and add it to taskbar
-Right click on the new icon and choose 'properties'. enter name of program (description field can be left void), then choose the image for the icon (third field; navigate with button on the right side and go to /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png, locate the file and choose 'open'; the firefox icon will be added to the window )
-add command line on fourth field (just type firefox)
-close the program launcher window


The Firefox icon should appear on the taskbar; if you right click on it you may choose to move the icon on any place of the taskbar

Anyway if you use the OpenWorkstation with the Gnome Desktop you can just add Launchers to Panel by going to Applications, point the one you want on the panel, right click on it and choose 'add launcher to panel' and that's done.

Hope this helps,
Antonio

The answers given so far are perhaps not so good. I have the Open64 distro and there is an issue with the panel launchers given as:

On the LiveCD the panel launchers do not work. This is due to XFCE including a working directory structure to panel launchers. You can right click hit properties and set it and they will work fine.

They also do not work when the system is installed and the answer above is not sufficiently specific to be helpful. This is what I found and the solution is a simple procedure:

Many of the icons on the Taskbar don't work when clicked.

The typical response here is:
Failed to change to directory '/home/workstation' (No such file or directory).

A right click to select Properties will bring up the properties panel and also the error:
Error stating file '/home/workstation': No such file or directory

The following procedure appears to work. I'm not sure why, and if you do it twice then it might not.
First you might like to click on the icon to assure yourself that it doesn't work. Then:
1. Right click on the icon and select Properties.
2. Click OK on the Error box, and it closes.
3. Click OK on the Launcher box, and it closes.

Now when you click on that same icon - it works. A minor miracle if ever there was one.

As for the sound it's not clear which version of PC/OS you are using but on my 64 bit version the default sound setting on startup is zero.
The icon to the right of the taskbar open up a panel, not directly a volume control. On the drop down menu you have a choice of sound card options to choose. In my case the first one was incorrect and it was the second one 'Analog Devices AD1988 (OSS Mixer)' that was correct.

After selecting the right one by trial and error if necessary (or work through them all), you next need to click the button marked 'Select Controls'. This takes you to a check box list. Tick the obvious boxes for mixing various levels together along with the master volume. The volume now need to be turned up nearly full.

When you have something like a video with sound the player that plays it may also have a volume control and this may need to be turned up nearly full as well.

This may solve your sound problems, otherwise they could be caused by the hardware or some other incompatibility.

Sound is a lot harder than it seems, or should be. Further to the tail end of what I suggested above. I discovered that these settings were not quite right, and resulted in reduced volume.

Currently my settings are HDA Intel (Alsa mixer)
The selected controls so far are Master, PCM, and Front.

The default setting is no sound with the volume muted. This has to be corrected each time the system is started up. In some respects this might be considered a good thing, it's just not the convension used by Windows I guess.

The end result is much louder volume.

The best advice here is probably to compare your sockets (ins and outs) with the controls available for each card type suggested, and then pick the one that most closely matches your hardware.