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Allan Gottlieb schreef: |
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> Mark Knecht suggests just telling gnome to delete the mixer from my |
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> panel config and install in manually, which I may well do (thanks |
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> mark). |
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I think that's how I fixed it too-- although the gnome mixer isn't all |
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that useful as a mixer (compared to alsamixer, or gamixer), it is useful |
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to be sure that *GNOME* is correctly set up for sound (the mixer acts |
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like the canary in the mines; if it won't load, or errors with the 'no |
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device found' business, you can be sure that no GNOME/GTK applications |
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which normally produce sound, will). |
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> I am sure I can find some mixer somewhere, but would prefer to |
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> actually find this one. |
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Right click on the panel; Add to Panel=>Mixer should be somewhere in the |
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list; if not, then check in the 'Pre-existing Gnome Packages' section |
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(but I think it's in the first list). |
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In any case, very few, if any, of the former gnome-applets seem to be |
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runnable as commands any more. And the most recent gnome-panel (2.10.2) |
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is so buggy-- even for GNOME-- that I've had to go back to fbpanel, |
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which at least doesn't crash all the time due to some problem with the |
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system notification area... instead of getting better (it used to be |
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that the panel would crash in the mixer applet all the time, until you |
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got the GNOME backend straightened out, but after that it was pretty |
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stable-- no more, it seems). So this problem really could be anything, |
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but I will say that the mixer applet worked fine once I (working from |
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memory): |
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1) went to the GNOME control panel and made sure esd was set to start at |
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GNOME login, which I believe also needed |
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2) the esound daemon running in the default runlevel |
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and then |
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3) deleted and re-added the mixer applet. |
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Problem was I didn't really want to be running the Enlightened Sound |
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Daemon, so I somehow or other reconfigured everything to be ALSA instead |
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(took esound out of the default runlevel, and *thought* I told GNOME not |
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to start esd at startup, but it persists in doing so, went to the GNOME |
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Control Panel=>Multimedia and Sound, and mucked about with the sources |
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and sinks until I could at least get test sounds), and the mixer applet |
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continued to work (although the panel itself was notoriously unstable). |
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If you can follow all that <sigh>... it was a bit of a trial. Hope it's |
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helpful. |
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> This seems to be a bug. Should I file it with gentoo (perhaps bad |
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> packaging) or with gnome? |
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This mixer applet issue has been going on a long time... I'd check |
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Bugzilla first, and see if it has been filed (probably) and what's the |
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current status (for all I know, Gentoo could be waiting for an upstream |
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patch, which they usually note in b.g.o. Afaik, the procedure is to file |
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it with Gentoo, always, and if it's an upstream problem, the gnome |
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maintainers will pass it forward. |
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HTH, |
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Holly |
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