Sound works, volume manager does not

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:04:31 -0500, Douglas Silas <dsilas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using Gnome 2.10.1 and my sound works, in both Gnome and KDE. I
> have tried to add the volume control applet to the panel, but it
> always gives me an error message. When I log into Gnome, I get a
> couple of  "No volume control elements and/or devices found" error
> messages. I have compiled support for my sound card into the kernel. A
> kldstat returns "pci/snd_ich":
>
> kldstat -v | grep snd
> 72 pci/snd_ich
>
> If I run gnome-volume-manager from the command line, I get a message
> saying that my "Registry is not present or it is corrupted, please
> update it by running gst-register". If I run gst-register, it dumps
> core:
>
>> gst-register
> Trying to load global_registry ...
> Error loading global_registry
> Added path   /usr/X11R6/lib/gstreamer-0.8 to user_registry
> Rebuilding user_registry (/home/silas/.gstreamer-0.8/registry.xml) ...
> Added plugin textoverlay with 1 feature.
> Added plugin vcdsrc with 1 feature.
> Added plugin gnomevfs with 2 features.
> Added plugin xvid with 2 features.
> Added plugin snapshot with 1 feature.
> Added plugin png with 2 features.
> Added plugin dvdreadsrc with 1 feature.
> Added plugin dvdnavsrc with 1 feature.
> Added plugin gconfelements with 2 features.
> Added plugin cdparanoia with 1 feature.
> Added plugin ac3parse with 1 feature.
> Added plugin xwindowlistener with 0 features.
> Added plugin gstvideo with 0 features.
> Added plugin gstresample with 0 features.
> Added plugin gstidct with 0 features.
> Added plugin gstaudiofilter with 0 features.
> Added plugin gstaudio with 0 features.
> Added plugin xvimagesink with 1 feature.
> Added plugin ximagesink with 2 features.
> Added plugin cdplayer with 1 feature.
> Added plugin ossaudio with 3 features.
> Bus error (core dumped)

What's CPUTYPE do you have? It is recommend to not tweak CPUTYPE. The  
CPUTYPE is too buggy in FreeBSD. In my three systems now have no CPUTYPE  
tweak.

Cheers,
MEzz

> If I try to play a movie with totem, I get this error: "Totem could
> not startup. Failed to create a GStreamer Play object."
>
> I haven't been successful getting Rhythmbox to compile yet, so I don't
> know if that works. But I can hear the Gnome desktop sound effects.
> What should I do to get Totem to work, and the gnome-volume-manager?
>
> Thx for you help.
> dsilas


-- 
mezz7 at cox.net  -  mezz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD GNOME Team
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/  -  gnome at FreeBSD.org