Gnome Volume Manager (depreciated)

F1r31c3r

Hey all

Is anyone else having this problem. Seems the gnome-volume-manager tells me it is deprecated i cant add it to my applet nor can i save volume settings.

The GUI keeps telling me that this will be removed soon. If so what will replace it, Is there a better volume manager anyone knows of for gnome desktop.

Is anyone else having this problem or is it just me?

Is there a section on the Gnome website i can check for more information in regards to the volume manager.

Thanks all it getting annoying every time i startx i have to keep adjusting and unmuting my volume/pcm and i have no way to add the control to my applet for quick access.

thanks again
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whiteghost · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 374 Location: north dakota

i use gnome-alsamixer
gnome-volume-manager is not for sound.

http://swift.siphos.be/linux_sea/ch08.html#id2882476

F1r31c3r · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:12 pm Post subject:

M · Guru Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 432

Hi, you can't have gnome-volume-control-applet anymore if you don't use pulseaudio, that is, you must have gnome-extra/gnome-media with pulseaudio use flag. If you compile it without you only get old gstreamer mixer, gnome-volume-control, but no applet.
I don't even understand what is so good about that pulseaudio, I know what the features are but I don't need any of them, and never will. Just what we needed, situation was probably not complicated enough -> http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/linuxaudio.png . As I understand, I don't use kde, phonon can use gstreamer, pulseaudio, xine etc. Xfce had a nice mixer but now they also switched to gstreamer based one. Ugh.
edit:
I see now that you always have to unmute channels, do you have alsa-utils emerged and alsasound added to runlevel? With alsactl store you can save current settings and next time you reboot you will have your settings. Also, it can save settings on stop, you can configure this in /etc/conf.d/alsasound.

F1r31c3r · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject:

F1r31c3r · Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:12 pm Post subject: god darn it

lol

Ok an update to emerging packages bringing this one up to date.

I added pulseaudio to my make.conf use flags sync and emerge -newuse. I had emerge pulse audio alsa etc things seemed fine untill a restart. Now i get error gstreamer failed,

exact error:

F1r31c3r · Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject: Sorted

Thought i would post back in case someone else is having this same issue with pulseaudio.

As mentioned in my previous post i kept getting the PAD error intermittently when playing audio, also in my messages log i was getting this horrid error and for the life of me no one had a solution anywhere until i tried something and boom it works perfect now so here goes.

Installation guide i followed for installing pulse audio can be found here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio

My system-wide use flags that work for me:

TequilaTR · n00b Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Posts: 66

I just wanted to add to this thread, just in case someone else also jumps over it:

With some current update lately you do not need pulseaudio for gstreamer anymore. However you need the gstreamer useflag for the gnome-applets.
How i came around this: The default 10 desktop-profile has the gstreamer useflag not set, however the gnome profile has.

So if you want your gnome-volume-control-applet back, you need to at least emerge gnome-applets with gstreamer, or directly switch to the gnome desktop profile.

scan2006 · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 48