need a better mixer

ruwach · 2004-06-15 03:57:47

hey there,

just installed Arch and i really dig it. will be my sole distro soon ( right now dual booting w/ debian)

i need a better mixer program for alsa though.Preferably gui. in debian i use gamix but it isn't available, i dont think, thru pacman.

suggestions anyone?

thanks

sarah31 · 2004-06-15 05:28:08

sorry this suggestion is not gui but aumix is quite easy to use. it is ncurses (gui-ish) that is key controlled (arrow keys and some letters).

shen · 2004-06-15 14:50:50

I made a PKGBUILD for this gamix that you can use with arch. I can upload the pkg to incoming if you'd like or you can build it yourself.

# Contributor: Mike Wilson <shen@echolinux.org>
pkgname=gamix
pkgver=1.99.p14
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="GTK based alsa mixer"
url="http://www1.tcnet.ne.jp/fmurata/linux/down"
license=""
depends=('alsa-lib' 'gtk' 'xfree86')
source=(http://www1.tcnet.ne.jp/fmurata/linux/down/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('a57b7954aa8e95b0a1c69a6fb06bc64b')

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
}

skoal · 2004-06-15 21:37:07

ruwach wrote:

... i need a better mixer program for alsa though.Preferably gui...thanks

If you're running Gnome, get "gnome-alsamixer".

ruwach · 2004-06-16 00:35:58

yes indeed, i would like to build gamix myself.

um, could you gimme a quick rundown on how to do that ?

thanks,

dp · 2004-06-16 01:34:49

ruwach wrote:

yes indeed, i would like to build gamix myself.
um, could you gimme a quick rundown on how to do that ?

thanks,

save the PKGBUILD posted up to a textfile named PKGBUILD and then in this directory in a terminal just run

makepkg

and then after successfull build, change to root and do this:

pacman -U gamix-1.....pkg.tar.gz

what will install the new pkg for you

good luck

ruwach · 2004-06-16 03:20:59

ok, did what you said and this is what it gave me.

it appeared to download and check md5sum, and some other stuff then got to this point and failed.

starting build:
/usr/bin/makepkg : line 540: build: command not found
==> ERROR: Build Failed Aborting

ok, what now ?

dp · 2004-06-16 07:23:42

ruwach wrote:

ok, did what you said and this is what it gave me.
it appeared to download and check md5sum, and some other stuff then got to this point and failed.
starting build:
/usr/bin/makepkg : line 540: build: command not found
==> ERROR: Build Failed Aborting
ok, what now ?

seems that the part

build() { 
   cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver 
   ./configure --prefix=/usr 
   make || return 1 
   make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install 
 }

you copied with a typo or something --- check this and if you cannot see any, post your PKGBUILD

lanrat · 2004-06-16 08:51:01

Check for additional spaces or other characters after } at the end of the pkgbuild. You may want to delete everything after } even if it's not visible - it happened to me several times.

ruwach · 2004-06-16 12:40:29

WOW - i got it working.

lesson learned - do not use Abiword to copy - paste a script.
i brought the script up in xedit and it had all this formatting stuff in it from abiword.

once i deleted it all line by line and saved it, it worked on my next attempt.

man, that was so easy ! Thanks much

mcubednyc · 2004-06-16 15:07:02

dp wrote:

and then after successfull build, change to root and do this:
pacman -U gamix-1.....pkg.tar.gz
what will install the new pkg for you

Sorry, "pacman -U ..."? Not "pacman -A ..."? I thought -U was for upgrading previously installed packages?

punkrockguy318 · 2004-06-16 15:39:02

Yeah, it should be $ pacman -A

Xentac · 2004-06-16 15:41:35

pacman -U will upgrade if installed or install if not installed. -U is always fine. Scalawag.

mcubednyc · 2004-06-16 17:13:54

Xentac wrote:

pacman -U will upgrade if installed or install if not installed. -U is always fine. Scalawag.

So under what circumstances would want to use pacman -A rather than pacman -U? What I mean is, if you can always use pacman -U, why does the -A option exist?

ruwach · 2004-06-16 17:43:17

well i dont know if i should have used pacman -A
i used pacman -U and it worked.
didn't even know about pacman -A ( Newbie )

dp · 2004-06-16 18:11:45

mcubednyc wrote:

Xentac wrote:
pacman -U will upgrade if installed or install if not installed. -U is always fine. Scalawag.
So under what circumstances would want to use pacman -A rather than pacman -U? What I mean is, if you can always use pacman -U, why does the -A option exist?

not sure, but maybe it was first here and the -U was added later

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