Gnome mixer does not work as well as mixer-applet

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

В ср, 01/09/2004 в 19:52 -0400, bgruber пишет:
> 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?

After some time I have rebuild and reinstall all gnome-related ports.
And it start working.

(it was strange bug)

> /brian

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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
SWsoft Inc. vova at sw-soft.com