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Old 03-14-2011, 11:35 PM   #1
kaza
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GUI mixer (ALSA?)


Hello,

I recently upgraded from FC11 to FC14 by backing up /home,
saving the output of "rpm -qa", repartitioning, installing FC14,
restoring /home, re-running "rpm -qa" and installing packages
that I had before.

But I noticed that the nice GUI mixer that I had before
which could allow me separately muting the speakers (conneced
to "front" jack) while leaving the signal to the headphone
jack is missing. I think it was an ALSA mixer but I'm not
100% sure. I downloaded alsa-driver-1.0.24.tar.bz2
but after

Code:
./configure --enable-dynamic-minors --with-moddir=updates
make
I encountered the error:

Code:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.35.11-83.hpfs.fc14.x86_64/build SUBDIRS=/home/user/install_sources/alsa-driver-1.0.24  CPP="gcc -E" CC="gcc" modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.11-83.hpfs.fc14.x86_64'
  CC [M]  /home/user/install_sources/alsa-driver-1.0.24/acore/hrtimer.o
In file included from /home/user/install_sources/alsa-driver-1.0.24/acore/hrtimer.c:1:0:
/home/user/install_sources/alsa-driver-1.0.24/include/adriver.h:1928:21: error: static declaration of \u2018vzalloc\u2019 follows non-static declaration
include/linux/vmalloc.h:54:14: note: previous declaration of \u2018vzalloc\u2019 was here
make[3]: *** [/home/user/install_sources/alsa-driver-1.0.24/acore/hrtimer.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/user/install_sources/alsa-driver-1.0.24/acore] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/user/install_sources/alsa-driver-1.0.24] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.11-83.hpfs.fc14.x86_64'
make: *** [compile] Error 2

From some googling I saw a post mentioning this error with
some hints that this error is just the beginning
of bigger troubles so I didn't try going farther
along this way.

I attempted

Code:
yum --nogpgcheck localinstall gnome-alsamixer-0.9.6-5.fc14.x86_64.rpm
after downloading the rpm but what I've got was looking totally
different from the mixer I remember and I couldn't separately
mute the speakers while leaving the sound in the headphones
so I removed this package.

So, what can I do to have back the mixer like I had in FC11,
with the capability to separately mute the speakers?

The ALSA-relevant packages I have now are:

Code:
<localhost>.../KA_SCUBA>rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-lib-1.0.24-1.fc14.x86_64
alsa-tools-firmware-1.0.23-1.fc14.x86_64
report-plugin-localsave-0.20-1.fc14.x86_64
report-config-localsave-0.20-1.fc14.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.22-1.fc13.x86_64
alsa-lib-1.0.24-1.fc14.i686
alsa-utils-1.0.23-3.fc14.x86_64
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.24-1.fc14.x86_64
alsa-firmware-1.0.23-1.fc14.noarch
Thanks in advance for any help,
kaza.
 
Old 03-25-2011, 03:24 PM   #2
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Have you tried running alsamixer in terminal? Open terminal and run command "alsamixer" without quotes. See if you can do it there? If you could remember the name of the package you had installed before you can use yum to install the same way you installed gnome-mixer. Was this mixer you remember something you installed or one that came packaged with FC11?
 
Old 03-26-2011, 03:35 PM   #3
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Hi, thanks for the reply,

The problem I had was with the "GMixer". When I run "alsamixer"I get the terminal filled with
some "kind of GUI" with few function keys options and I coldn't even figure out how to control
the volume, not to mention "mute". During my experiments with packages I installed
"alsamixergui", got MANY controls of every possible input and output but the same bug (feature?)
remained: when I attempted to "mute" the front speaker, it also mute the headphones.

Is there any config. file (/etc/... ?) that controls weather the headphone are mutable or "always ON"?

TIA,
kaza.

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Have you tried running alsamixer in terminal? Open terminal and run command "alsamixer" without quotes. See if you can do it there? If you could remember the name of the package you had installed before you can use yum to install the same way you installed gnome-mixer. Was this mixer you remember something you installed or one that came packaged with FC11?
 
  


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