ALSA + Gnome Volume Control?

joeljkp · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject: ALSA + Gnome Volume Control?

I just installed development-sources-2.6.4 with the ALSA drivers, but now my Gnome Volume Control says it can't find /dev/mixer. Is there a way to get the volume control to work directly with ALSA? Or do I need to enable OSS emulation for it?

herbo · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:31 am Post subject:

Nah, no oss emulation need, but you do need to install :

--> media-plugins/gst-plugins-oss

dont worry about the name, this will make the gnome volume control work.

joem · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:19 am Post subject:

Actually there is now a gst-plugins-alsa ebuild. That should take care of your problem.

Falling_Icaro · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 18

hello

Pythagoras1 · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:20 pm Post subject:

same problem here and i installed both gst-plugins-alsa and gst-plugins-oss.
/dev/sound/mixer doesn't exist. I have compiled the alsa drivers into the kernel image and use a Sound Blaster Live.

Falling_Icaro · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 18

hey!

I allready fix it. you must build alsa oss emulation in the kernel, for 2.6.x it'll be:
Device Drivers -> Sound -> ALSA -> OSS Mixer API and OSS PCM API
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Hoppe this help!

Pythagoras1 · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject:

joem · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:31 pm Post subject:

Pythagoras1 · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:30 am Post subject:

Phk · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:45 am Post subject: Hi

Hi there.

I also have the same problem, but since i managed to change gconfs settings to alsasink instead of osssink, the volume meter can now be changed.

However, nothing supposed to make noise, makes it.

Alsa is working properly, in mp3blaster, and other appz (like KDE), but when, for example, i run gnome-alsamixer, it displays

Falling_Icaro · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 18

there is one thing that i can't understand..

if i have explicit USE="alsa -oss", why does portage enables oss by default on gnome2.6?
The stuppid thing is that it enables oss but doesnt install gst-plugins-oss which results in a gnome new instalation without sound.

and why doesnt gnome Sound configuration tool as the option to choose between oss and alsa? if it can, why not to show it to the users? Honest, it feels a hugly hack to mess with gnomes internal files!

Well these had to be said, :p

- José M. Fernandes

theturner · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

gnome-mixer just does not support alsa very well because of the feature freeze for gnome 2.6, which apparently came way too early..
just use gnome-alsamixer

Phk · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:

I used gnome-alsamixer.. However, it doesn't find any soundcards... Is it REALLY NEEDED to compile the kernel with OSS support ?
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Phk · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:32 am Post subject:

Building kernel completely without OSS (only in ALSA's emulation), and carefully configuring gconf-editor for alsasink and alsasrc, instead of osssink and osssrc,

Fixes this...

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eniac · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 1:09 pm Post subject:

I did the same installed gst-plugins-alsa changed my settings with gconfi-editor and removed all OSS options from my kernel. But then my applet doesn't work anymore (red cross true it)

Phk · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 1:33 pm Post subject:

There are two possibilities:

1) You haven't done everything like we've explained during the post
2) This is a gnome 2.6 problem... Gnome 2.6 is EXCELLENT, however, it is a very very very unstable release....

So, take a deep breath and wait..... or downgrade your little gnome

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Pythagoras1 · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject:

Phk · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject:

Another problem with the GNOME volume control, is that it never saves the information of which channel to control (I have to select PCM each time i log in) and the main volume (i have to set it up too).....

Any ideas?
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m1ll3 · n00b Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 11

Same problem here.

Since I emerged Gnome 2.6.1-rc1, the Mixer-Applet can't open the mixer-device /dev/sound/mixer because there is none, although sound works fine and "Open Volume Control", too.
I've got sound support as a module and ALSA is completely disabled in the kernel because I'm using the latest alsa-driver-1.0.4-r1. Also changed the "osssink" and "osssrc"-settings to the alsa-values - but it didn't help.

Any suggestions or is can this be considered as a bug?

slano · n00b Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 41

Try re-emerging gnome-applets without gstreamer in your USE flags. It helped me with the volume applet.

EricHsu · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 12:46 am Post subject:

try:

shell$ gst-register-0.8

it helped me find back my gnome-volumn-control twice :twisted:

m1ll3 · n00b Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 11

Just found out that somehow my ALSA-OSS-Emulation was kicked out after the Gnome 2.6.1-rc1 update.
I emerged the latest alsa-oss and now the volume control works again because the missing dev's have been created.
Quake 3 also has its sound back now.

tecknojunky · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:16 am Post subject:

LostControl · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 6:31 pm Post subject:

pjv · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 353 Location: Belgium

What is happening to alsa+gnome??

These last emerge updates (the last week or so), I've seen the gnome mixer applet slowly degenerate. First my one perfect mixer changed to 3 different mixers with lots of channels. Now the applet is dead. It says it can't find a mixer though everywhere else sound is perfect. Though I can't control the applet's volume, I can still control it with my keys in gnome (osd).

[edit]Now I have the mixers in behind the applet back, but the applet control is still dead.