On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > I wrote: > > Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Schmarck > > > <michael.schmarck <at> habmalnefrage.de> wrote: > > > > There's another problem: When I start gnome-volume-control, I get: > > > > No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found > > > > Hmm... > > [...] > > > > Also does > > > rhythmbox use alsa or oss? > > > > I suppose alsa - I set USE=-oss in make.conf. How do I check? > > gst-plugins-alsa is NOT installed. > > That's it! > > On my new system, I'm using Xfce; on other systems I used to use > Gnome. I suppose Gnome pulls in gst-plugins-meta which may pull in > gst-plugins-alsa. Xfce doesn't do that (of course). > > After installing gst-plugins-meta (and gst-plugins-alsa), I'm able > to hear something. > > Nice! > > Andrey, thanks for your suggestions - they made me solve the problem.
Something's wrong there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends -a gst-plugins-alsa [ Searching for packages depending on gst-plugins-alsa... ] media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.14 (alsa? >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10) media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10 (alsa? >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10) media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r1 (alsa? >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10) <snip irrelevant stuff> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends -a gst-plugins-meta [ Searching for packages depending on gst-plugins-meta... ] gnome-base/control-center-2.20.3 (media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta:0.10) media-video/totem-2.22.0 (>=media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends -a gst-plugins-base [ Searching for packages depending on gst-plugins-base... ] <snip HUGE list...> media-sound/rhythmbox-0.10.1-r1 (>=media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10) media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 (>=media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.11) Looking into ebuilds, it would appear that gst-plugins-meta used to have alsa and oss USE flags. The most current version doesn't, so you either have to emerge gst-plugins-alsa manually or emerge gst-plugins-meta to get alsa support. Which seems really odd as the vast majority of users will have alsa or oss. Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox should DEPENDs on gst-plugins-base which should conditionally DEPEND on -alsa or -oss (or other sound systems). Unless rhythmbox can serve up over the network that is, in which case local hardware support might not be needed. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
