There is no way to control the volume of the sound. It is impossible to add the volume-control to the panel. When I try to start gmixer from the menu happens nothing.
This is the output when I try to start gmixer from the terminal:
joerg@linux-llm7:~> gmixer
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
W:Failed to load icon Symbol »stock_line_in« nicht im Thema vorhanden
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/gmixer”, line 1168, in <module>
GMixer(options.daemon, options.custom_mixer_cmd, options.pixmap)
File “/usr/bin/gmixer”, line 640, in init
self._build_gvolumes()
File “/usr/bin/gmixer”, line 1013, in _build_gvolumes
sep.hide()
UnboundLocalError: local variable ‘sep’ referenced before assignment
joerg@linux-llm7:~>
I have created a strace.log but I don’t know how to add it here.
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I noticed that I am talking of 2 different bugs.
There are in the menu under “Unterhaltungsmedien” (I don’t know this word in English, sorry) two sound-mixer: the Audio Mixer and the GMixer. The Audio Mixer is working the GMixer is not working.
But there is another Bug: I have no Sound at all and this is probably the reason why there is no volume control plug-in in the panel.
I will start a new thread for this issue.
@crmrhm: sorry, but I don’t believe that the problem is similar.
I don’t know about openSUSE-12.3 as I have yet to install it (I just got back from a 1 month vacation with limited Internet/PC access).
On 12.1 and 12.2, on my LXDE I confess I went a step further than the install and I enabled pulse audio and installed pavucontrol. That could be a pragmatic approach to adopt on 12.3 until any basic 12.3 anomalous behaviour wrt volume control is fixed.
OK I installed pulseaudio. It is working fine.
I think you have to install xmms2-plugin-pulse if you want to try out lxmusic with pulseaudio.
But unfortunately now there appears sometimes a noise while changing the volume.
I started the volti-mixer from a terninal. With the Master volume control I can change volume without noise. When I try to change the PCM volume exactly this noise appears again. PCM is HDMI. I think the noise has something to do with PCM.
When I tried to start volti (in the notification field) I received this error messages:
[alsactrl.py:init:41] can’t open Master control for card Generic, trying to select first available mixer channel
[alsactrl.py:init:49] can’t open first available control for card Generic
error: list index out of range
Exiting
I had to change in the ~/.config/volti/config the value card_index = 0 to card_index = 1
The volti volume-control is now in the notification-field.
I added @volti to the /etc/xdg/lxsessio/LXDE/autostart
Now I have volume control without noise.
For me this combination ( pulseaudio and volti ) was the only way to make sound working in XFCE 11.4 and I was over 1 year happy with this.
