No mixer-volume control [Solved, somewhat]

[kensum71]

Using xfce pheonix and e17. I used to have a mixer gadget I could put on the shelf or the desktop; now I can not get an icon to control volume anywhere. I switched back to alsa sound and that did not work either. Have tried all I can think of including reinstalling gadgets to get this back. Under e17 my keyboard volume control does not seem to work so I have no why to change volume. Have been using xfce until I can find a solution for this. I need to continue to use pulse audio, but as stated above this does not seem to be the problem. Have a fully updated system. I can't recreate the problem as I can't get back to square one to see what is going on. Any ideas, thanks, ken

Solution: Went back to the alsa sound system and was able to finally get a mixer control back. Was able to use a work around and get skype to work with the cam and mic. Will use xfce with pulse or kde until a better solution comes along.

[melodie]

Hi,

Could you provide the main information please ? What audio card has this machine of your's ? Type in a root console:

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# lspci
and bring back the full output to us. Tell us what your kernel is too:

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# uname -a

[kensum71]

Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 21 22:42:28 CDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:08.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] (rev a1)

[melodie]

00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

Is it just the mixer which is a problem, or do you not have sound either ?

If just the mixer : do you have xfce4-mixer installed ?

[kensum71]

volume works fine in alsa or pulse. I have volume control when in xfce desktop. I used to have volume contol in E17 with either a mixer icon on the shelf or the desktop, but after last upgrade no longer have a mixer icon and can't get it back anywhere. The gadget manager buttons appear not to work but it will add other gadgets but not the mixer. have tried reinstalling Emodules and switching back to alsa sound with no luck. I will try and disconect my webcam and mike from the usb and see if that works, but it will not be a solution.

[kensum71]

I have been able to maybe narrow it down some. In the enlightenment settings pannel when i click on mixer and click launch mixer, it shows my driver(alsa HDA nvidia) which is correct,  and my webcam/ mike. the webcam is highlighted. It will not let me select the hda sound and driver. When I select it and click apply it just goes back to the webcam setting.

Now when I disconnect the webcam and go back to the mixer settings, I have nothing showing, no hda nvidia driver and no sound.
I believe that when the cam is connected, I have sound because of the driver being there but can't get the mixer control due to the webcam taking over. Don't know where to go from here exept back to the xfce desktop where everything is working correctly.

[melodie]

Didn't you say in first post that Xfce4 is what you are using ?

"Using xfce pheonix and e17"

You are not very clear, and didn't answer my question : DOES THE SOUND WORK ?

[kensum71]

Yes I have sound, but as i stated in my first post and in the bug report, under E17, I no longer have a way to control volume. Everything works fine under xfce, in alsa or pulse, but no longer in E17 desktop. It used to work before last update, but i no longer can get a volume control on a shelf or the desktop. It acts like the gadget manager is messed up, don't know other than what I found in my last post. With webcam connected it appears to be not using my sound driver completely but using the webcam as default. Can't get it to stay on the hda setting. 

[melodie]

Hi,

You could try using volumeicon, and also gnome-alsamixer. volumeicon provides the access to the mixer on the panel, but the default is to launch xterm with alsamixer. If you setup the preferences to use gnome-alsamixer after you install both, it will show the GTK application. I just don't know how to make it start with X in E17, but you will probably find out, or another E17 user will help you find out.