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