From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 22:12:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93FD106566B for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:12:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C4E8FC0A for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:12:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n1FMCsQJ063658 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:12:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1FMCruh063816 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:12:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n1FMCqjH063815 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:12:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:12:52 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20090215221252.GD87583@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20090215163038.GA55026@bsd.remdog.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090215163038.GA55026@bsd.remdog.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:12:54 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Subject: Re: Mixer resets X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:12:57 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 15), Rem P Roberti said: > I use a ham radio program (fldigi) that needs to have the sound card > tweaked from time to time. I started out just doing it from the command > line via mixer. After a while I installed gmixer because having a > graphical interface made things go a lot quicker. But I discovered that > every time I invoked gmixer it reset the vol to 0:0. It continues to do > that, and I'm wondering if anyone else has that experience with gmixer. > Could that be a bug? Are there other graphical mixer alternatives? You could install the gkrellm and gkrellmvolume2 ports; then you'll always have a slider for each mixer channel available. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com