updated to gnome(-light)-2.16 Go to System->Preferences->Sound Make the correct settings and click on "Test" error-message: audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: no element "gconfaudiosink" emerge gst-plugins-gconf and retry: no error So gst-plugins-gconf should be a dependency of gnome-base/control-center-2.16.2 emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.13 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:20:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa apm berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr elibc_glibc emboss encode fam fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux libg++ linguas_de linguas_en mikmod mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
fix is in CVS, thanks for reporting