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Date:      Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:52:09 -0400
From:      bgruber <lists@bgruber.isa-geek.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Gnome mixer does not work as well as mixer-applet
Message-ID:  <413660A9.1070403@bgruber.isa-geek.com>
In-Reply-To: <1078299643.58546.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <1078299346.6838.10.camel@localhost> <1078299643.58546.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 02:35, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>I have detected and working sound subsystem (actually it is not changed
>>for some years). esdplay works fine.
>>
>>After upgrade gnome from marcus cvs 
>>gnome-volum-control complains about
>>"Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found"
>>and mixer-applet refuses to change volume (but not complains about no
>>device).
>>
>>% mixer
>>Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
>>Mixer pcm      is currently set to  75:75
>>Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
>>Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
>>Mixer cd       is currently set to  75:75
>>Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
>>Recording source: mic
>>% cat /dev/sndstat 
>>FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
>>Installed devices:
>>pcm0: <NeoMagic 256AV> at memory 0xfe000000, 0xfea00000 irq 9 (1p/1r/0v
>>channels duplex default)
>>% ls -l /dev/mixer /dev/dsp
>>crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30,   3 Mar  3 09:32 /dev/dsp
>>crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   30,   0 Mar  3 09:32 /dev/mixer
>>% esdplay /usr/local/share/licq/sounds/icq/Message.wav
>><q-q>
>>%
>>
>>Any ideas ?
>>
>>Yesterdays 5-CURRENT and gnome
>>
>># pkg_glob esound
>>esound-0.2.33
>>#
>>
>>On the next machine with same packages (actually I have build backages
>>on that machine and install here) it works.
> 
> 
> Yeah, that's the interesting thing.  Adam is seeing this same problem,
> but I'm not.  My machine is also a -CURRENT machine from two days ago,
> with an Intel ich soundcard.  I did see this problem briefly on my GNOME
> 2.4 laptop, but after removing and re-adding the sound applet, it worked
> again.  Adam didn't have any luck.  The only thing I can think of is for
> an affected user to get a strace or truss of the applet starting up so
> we can see what's failing.
> 
> Joe
> 

Hey,

I just updated from 5.2.1 to 5.3-BETA2, and I'm having this problem.  I 
don't seem to be able to find any record of the solution, only the 
problem.  Did anyone ever resolve it?

/brian



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