| 1 |
At Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:52:36 +0200 Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> Allan Gottlieb schreef: |
| 4 |
>> Mark Knecht suggests just telling gnome to delete the mixer from my |
| 5 |
>> panel config and install in manually, which I may well do (thanks |
| 6 |
>> mark). |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> I think that's how I fixed it too-- although the gnome mixer isn't all |
| 9 |
> that useful as a mixer (compared to alsamixer, or gamixer), it is useful |
| 10 |
> to be sure that *GNOME* is correctly set up for sound (the mixer acts |
| 11 |
> like the canary in the mines; if it won't load, or errors with the 'no |
| 12 |
> device found' business, you can be sure that no GNOME/GTK applications |
| 13 |
> which normally produce sound, will). |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
Good point |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
>> I am sure I can find some mixer somewhere, but would prefer to |
| 18 |
>> actually find this one. |
| 19 |
> |
| 20 |
> Right click on the panel; Add to Panel=>Mixer should be somewhere in the |
| 21 |
> list; if not, then check in the 'Pre-existing Gnome Packages' section |
| 22 |
> (but I think it's in the first list). |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
No. It really wasn't there, i.e. the binary wasn't present. I |
| 25 |
followed your advice and went to bugzilla. This sent me to the forums |
| 26 |
and the hint that the gstreamer USE is important. I set this and did |
| 27 |
the requisite emerges. Now sounds do come up but I get the "no device |
| 28 |
found" you mentioned above. I shall pursue this. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
The mixer still does not appear when I do "add to panel". I don't see |
| 31 |
"pre-existing gnome packages". What (and where) is it? |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
> In any case, very few, if any, of the former gnome-applets seem to be |
| 34 |
> runnable as commands any more. And the most recent gnome-panel (2.10.2) |
| 35 |
> is so buggy-- even for GNOME-- that I've had to go back to fbpanel, |
| 36 |
> which at least doesn't crash all the time due to some problem with the |
| 37 |
> system notification area... instead of getting better (it used to be |
| 38 |
> that the panel would crash in the mixer applet all the time, until you |
| 39 |
> got the GNOME backend straightened out, but after that it was pretty |
| 40 |
> stable-- no more, it seems). So this problem really could be anything, |
| 41 |
> but I will say that the mixer applet worked fine once I (working from |
| 42 |
> memory): |
| 43 |
> |
| 44 |
> 1) went to the GNOME control panel and made sure esd was set to start at |
| 45 |
> GNOME login, which I believe also needed |
| 46 |
> |
| 47 |
> 2) the esound daemon running in the default runlevel |
| 48 |
> |
| 49 |
> and then |
| 50 |
> |
| 51 |
> 3) deleted and re-added the mixer applet. |
| 52 |
> |
| 53 |
> Problem was I didn't really want to be running the Enlightened Sound |
| 54 |
> Daemon, so I somehow or other reconfigured everything to be ALSA instead |
| 55 |
> (took esound out of the default runlevel, and *thought* I told GNOME not |
| 56 |
> to start esd at startup, but it persists in doing so, went to the GNOME |
| 57 |
> Control Panel=>Multimedia and Sound, and mucked about with the sources |
| 58 |
> and sinks until I could at least get test sounds), and the mixer applet |
| 59 |
> continued to work (although the panel itself was notoriously unstable). |
| 60 |
> If you can follow all that <sigh>... it was a bit of a trial. Hope it's |
| 61 |
> helpful. |
| 62 |
|
| 63 |
Helpful, as always ... and as always, thanks. |
| 64 |
|
| 65 |
allan |
| 66 |
-- |
| 67 |
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
Archives