"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nickolay Savchenko wrote: > >> 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. > You've misunderstood. Gnome sound works, but ocassionaly it becomes muted. I think the problem is related to permissions. 5 minutes ago my father logged out from his gnome session and I logged in. And there is an error:
-- Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer -- However, I have /dev/mixer. It's simply inaccessible. Maybe a bug report has to be filled. -- Regards, Nickolay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
