XFCE4 Volume Issues

duryodhan · 03-25-2008, 02:20 AM

hey

I got bored with KDE so tried my hand with XFCE 4.2 that comes with SW12.

I seem to have run into a bump with the volume mixer. When I go into mixer settings , it doesn't show any device. I don't know what the problem is though, kmix used to run fine.

I have snd-hda-intel configured via alsaconfig. alsamixer allows me to increase / decrease volume.

Also , any idea how I can make the multimedia keys for vol+ and vol- work in xfce ?

Karu · 03-26-2008, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duryodhan

I seem to have run into a bump with the volume mixer. When I go into mixer settings , it doesn't show any device. I don't know what the problem is though, kmix used to run fine.

I have snd-hda-intel configured via alsaconfig. alsamixer allows me to increase / decrease volume.

You should have(/can add) volme applet on your panel. Clicking
on it should open a window with many options to configure (like alsamixer,
but GUI) .

duryodhan · 03-26-2008, 03:16 PM

thats my point ... the xfce4-mixer doesn't seem to detect my device.

dunric · 03-26-2008, 04:38 PM

Do you run alsamixer under the same user account ? (You need to be in audio group)
Can you see /dev/mixer or /dev/sound/mixer ?
Are snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss kernel modules loaded ?

duryodhan · 03-27-2008, 07:44 AM

Hey

audacious is playing any music I like, so is mplayer. Thus, all the modules are loaded.

But I can't see /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer or /dev/sound/mixer (neither as normal user nor as root)

and I am in audio group.

kmix works fine , this is a problem just with xfce4-mixer.

dunric · 03-27-2008, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duryodhan

Hey

audacious is playing any music I like, so is mplayer. Thus, all the modules are loaded.

But I can't see /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer or /dev/sound/mixer (neither as normal user nor as root)

and I am in audio group.

kmix works fine , this is a problem just with xfce4-mixer.

So it may be the problem if xfce4-mixer can handle OSS interface only. Try to manualy load OSS mixer module as root with

Code:

modprobe snd-mixer-oss

and try to reload xfce4-mixer plugin.
OSS kernel modules are normally loaded at startup with /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa script.

duryodhan · 03-27-2008, 10:07 PM

aah ok.

well I don't have oss modules in this kernel, I will have to recompile and check...

lets see..