From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2Lbt-0000s6-7n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:11:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3BA2E087D; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0EDE087D for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5001466AD5 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.100, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rnIRETuTOP65 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768836535D for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N2LbC-0003kK-Ts for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:10:46 +0100 Received: from dhcp-dyn-55-44.aip.de ([141.33.55.44]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:10:46 +0100 Received: from mozilla by dhcp-dyn-55-44.aip.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:10:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Peter Weilbacher Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN] Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:10:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-dyn-55-44.aip.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091024 SeaMonkey/2.0.1pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e6808d60-07a0-4770-9df0-4ef44610309a X-Archives-Hash: c3fd83c2851dbcdbede4f3ad60ede339 On 25.10.2009 18:07, walt wrote: > On 10/25/2009 08:19 AM, walt wrote: >=20 >> Merging gnome-media with the pulseaudio USE flag breaks >> gnome-volume-control most horribly IMO, but OTOH I don't >> understand pulseaudio, so maybe I'm wrong. >=20 > I found the gnome 2.26 upgrade guide, which points to the > pulseaudio documentation. >=20 > It seems that pulseaudio has its own mixer control (not > included in gentoo's pulseaudio package) so maybe it does > make sense to remove that function from gnome's volume > control applet. Looking at the pulseaudio documentation it seems to be a very well-designed system. But there are so many components to it that I found it very confusing to configure. In fact, after fiddling around with it for two days, I gave up on that, removed USE=3Dpulseaudio again, and rebuilt world. Now I only have the problem that I cannot start the GNOME "Volume Control" applet any more. When I try I get Some panel items are no longer available One or more panel items (also referred to as applets) are no longer available in the GNOME desktop. These items will now be removed from your configuration: =95 Volume Control You will not receive this message again. so I have to go to the full mixer in the menu instead. My problem was that I never got any sound out of it, with any application. And I lost all but one mixer slider. With the alsa-based backend, my system has the peculiarity that it starts up with "Front" and "Headphone" levels at 100% but muted and Master at 100% (unmuted), I always have to unmute "Front" before I want any sound. With pulseaudio active, all but the "Master" slider were gone, so I didn't have any way to influence the levels on the other components. At least that's what I am thinking might have been going on, but maybe I'm wrong. Peter.