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Distribution: Slackware64 14.2 and current, SlackwareARM current
Posts: 1,643
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Originally Posted by cwizardone
I was able to control the volume with a couple of buttons on the keyboard, but now they
don't work.
I scanned all later posts but found nothing specific on that ... even in 4.6 I had to set up keyboard shortcuts to make the volume keys to work. Found in Xfce Menu -> Settings -> Keyboard Settings. Add "aumix -v+5" and press the corresponding key afterwards to raise volume (by 5 points, change number to get a bigger change) and "aumix -v-5" to lower it, as well as "aumix -v0" to mute the audio volume. I hope the Settings look similar in 4.8, as I still have 4.6 installed due to lack of time.
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Originally Posted by cwizardone
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I have a large number of floppies which contain various business files.
Absolutely no offense intended, but I guess copying all the files once to CD or an USB memorystick will save you valuable time in the future. When I remember how long it took to write one floppy of not more than 1,44 MB and compare to how long it takes now to write to an USB stick, feels like at least 1/100th the time. Reading the floppies again and again takes you much more time in the long run I suspect.
Further more I have had very bad experiences with floppy disks, every now and then one died, even ones that I were new and shiny - a CD or an USB stick are not that prone to errors IMHO, at least that's what I experience here. I had to use floppies up until 2009 and have not looked back after I could switch to newer media.
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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,069
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titopoquito,
Thanks for taking the time to check out the volume problem.
I've decided to stick with Xfce 4.6.2. It does all I need to do without any of the problems present in 4.8. If and when 4.8.2 is released I'll take another look at it.
As to the floppies, I have a large box of them sorted and indexed and the amount of time it would take to transfer them to another medium just isn't worth it when the floppy drive works perfectly in Xfce 4.6.2 (and all versions to date of KDE).
Thanks, again.
Last edited by cwizardone; 05-15-2011 at 07:43 PM.
Reason: Typo.
[OT]
Robby, did you have any damage from the tornados?
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My daughters' "playground" (one of those prefab slide/swing/jungle gym things) was utterly destroyed, and I had a small piece of vinyl siding blow off of my storage building, but otherwise, nothing here. Given the alternatives, I'll take it. Thanks for asking! :-)
I'm glad you didn't have any damage and that you and your family are ok.
So I was doing some more researching of this mixer problem that some of us seem to be having. I tried this solution, comment #4 of the xfce4-mixer bug filed, and it seemed to work for me.
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Hmm,
After open & close the mixer plugin's property dialog, it works fine on my system.
Adjusting volume by mouse wheel is available and tooltip appears now.
The mounting problem is solved, I think. The mixer problem is one that I can't reproduce and thus don't know how to even begin solving.
We (at least I) don't blame you, Robby. :-)
I haven't had a chance to look through what you changed so far, so what did you do? Did you implement the Arch solution that worked for me, or did you find another solution?
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