mixer not in the loop

[Per olof Ljungmark]

On 05/12/12 01:35, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> uname -a
> FreeBSD kreutzman.h.inter-sonic.com 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1:
> Tue May 1 01:45:01 CEST 2012
> peo at kreutzman.h.inter-sonic.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>
> KDE3
> cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1> (play/rec) default
>
> Got great sound but the mixer is completely out of the loop, controls
> nothing. The levels controls of xmms and firefox/flash works but I would
> like to have the OSS mixer control the various levels but it does not. I
> believe I can recall the mixer working when I installed the box a few
> weeks ago... surely I screwed something up.

Apparently a well known fact:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=82043