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When I log into gnome I get a dialog with the following message: |
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"Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found" |
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Advcie from google and forums.g.o seems to point to the following likely |
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solutions: |
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1. make sure user has ability to do audio - yes I can, and everything I |
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run in gnome produces audio output when it should (mplayer, xmms, |
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mpg123, xine, whatever) |
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2. run gst-register-0.8 - done it, more than once. Doesn't complain |
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about any problems, but makes no difference even after a reboot. |
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Thats about a summary of the suggested fixes and the results. I figured |
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that the error seemed to be on running gnome-volume-control, so when i |
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run it from an xterm I get the following: |
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nick@sf /home/torrents/nick $ gnome-volume-control |
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** (gnome-volume-control:19921): CRITICAL **: how to remove plugins? |
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(gnome-volume-control:19921): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: Factory for |
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`ossmixer' has no type. This probably means the plugin wasn't found |
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because the registry is broken. The plugin GStreamer was looking for is |
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named 'ossaudio' and is expected in file |
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'/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstossaudio.so'. The registry for this plugin |
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is located at '/var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml' |
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** (gnome-volume-control:19921): CRITICAL **: how to remove plugins? |
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(gnome-volume-control:19921): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: Factory for |
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`alsamixer' has no type. This probably means the plugin wasn't found |
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because the registry is broken. The plugin GStreamer was looking for is |
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named 'alsa' and is expected in file |
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'/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstalsa.so'. The registry for this plugin is |
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located at '/var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml' |
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OK well it looks like something is missing. I though gst-register-0.8 |
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was supposed to sort all that out. |
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What am I missing or what do I do to fix this? Can I safely |
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delete /var/lib/cache/gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml and re-run the register |
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program and see if that makes a difference? Or will i break something? |
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As sound is in fact working in all apps I use, its not such a worry, |
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just a sign that something is broken, and if something is broken it may |
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get worse down the track. |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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