Wazow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nickolay Savchenko wrote:
Right click on sound button, uncheck mute item. ;)
I have also seen that, and have to admit that it made me tinker with alsa config, which was just a waste of time :). So why gnome sound (or system mixer?) gets muted occasionally?
Andrzej
I don't know exactly, but it seems like gnome has a problem accessing /dev/mixer after restarting X server. So, it thinks you have no sound card, and mutes itself. However, it's not gnome's problem, i've noticed this using other WMs. I'm not an Xfree or alsa hacker and I cannot say something other than my (maybe stupid) suggestions.
It sounds like gnome is looking for OSS compatible devices (/dev/mixer, /dev/dsp, etc) and OSS emulation is not installed and running with ALSA. In particular, alsa drivers must be compiled with --enable-oss or some such switch. This necessitates have OSS in the USE flags. Of course, with the 2.6 kernel, these options need to be chosen in the kernel config. Also, the lines in /etc/modules.d/alsa need to be uncommented for OSS emulation as well.
Tom Veldhouse
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