Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
I had this problem as well and i re-emerged gnome-panel and it went away. On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:16 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet. I have emerged gnome-light, gnome-audio, gnome-alsamixer, and gnome-applets, but cannot find the gnome mixer applet. Can anyone tell me where it is? Thanks, allan -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org Fox Cities Linux User Group = www.foxlug.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
The key seems to be having gstreamer in the USE variable. At Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:58:02 -0500 LostSon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this problem as well and i re-emerged gnome-panel and it went away. On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:16 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
Allan Gottlieb schreef: The key seems to be having gstreamer in the USE variable. At Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:58:02 -0500 LostSon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this problem as well and i re-emerged gnome-panel and it went away. On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:16 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet. In that case, make sure to run gstreamer-properties to make sure the gstreamer backend is properly configured. I did try to work with gstreamer, but the only thing that uses it --Totem-- really worked much better with the xine backend, so I switched Totem to that (recompile; if you compile it -xine it uses gstreamer; if +xine it uses xine) and didn't think about gstreamer much more after that, so I can't say more about its inner workings. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet (SOLVED)
At Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:21:24 +0200 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schreef: The key seems to be having gstreamer in the USE variable. I had this problem as well and i re-emerged gnome-panel and it went away. On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:16 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet. In that case, make sure to run gstreamer-properties to make sure the gstreamer backend is properly configured. That actually was set correctly. Once I installed gstreamer and joined the audio group, all was well. The only somewhat non obvious part was that you need the gstreamer USE variable. Thanks for your help. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
Allan, Hi. I had this problem some time ago. I believe I deleted the volume control on the panel and then added new one to fix it. I might have actually deleted the whole panel. Not totally sure. Anyway, building it up by hand seemed to address the issue for me. Hope this helps, Mark On 7/10/05, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet. I have emerged gnome-light, gnome-audio, gnome-alsamixer, and gnome-applets, but cannot find the gnome mixer applet. Can anyone tell me where it is? Thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:51 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet. I have emerged gnome-light, gnome-audio, gnome-alsamixer, and gnome-applets, but cannot find the gnome mixer applet. Can anyone tell me where it is? GNOME_MixerApplet belongs to gnome-applets, actually. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
At Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:35:10 +0100 Edward Catmur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:51 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet. I have emerged gnome-light, gnome-audio, gnome-alsamixer, and gnome-applets, but cannot find the gnome mixer applet. Can anyone tell me where it is? GNOME_MixerApplet belongs to gnome-applets, actually. Thanks for the confirmation, but it isn't there as far as I can tell. In my old gnome-2.8 bash-2.05b# ls /usr/libexec/mi* /usr/libexec/mini_commander_applet /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 bash-2.05b# But in my new gnome-2.10 bash-2.05b# ls /mnt/gentoo-new/usr/libexec/mi* /mnt/gentoo-new/usr/libexec/mini_commander_applet bash-2.05b# 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 am sure I can find some mixer somewhere, but would prefer to actually find this one. This seems to be a bug. Should I file it with gentoo (perhaps bad packaging) or with gnome? Thanks again to both of you. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
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). 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). 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. This seems to be a bug. Should I file it with gentoo (perhaps bad packaging) or with gnome? This mixer applet issue has been going on a long time... I'd check Bugzilla first, and see if it has been filed (probably) and what's the current status (for all I know, Gentoo could be waiting for an upstream patch, which they usually note in b.g.o. Afaik, the procedure is to file it with Gentoo, always, and if it's an upstream problem, the gnome maintainers will pass it forward. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
