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 -- [email protected] mailing list
