Gnome mixer does not work as well as mixer-applet

Vladimir Grebenschikov vova at sw.ru
Tue Mar 2 23:34:53 PST 2004


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.

-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
SWsoft Inc.


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