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cybertooth

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Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 14

No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

After upgrade I have this error

"No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found."

and no more sound .

any fix to this?

thanks

K'niyl

Member

Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 6

Re: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

I have the same issue. Nevertheless it only appens on an x86_64 computer. My i686 still have sound.

some additional informations:

$lspci | grep Audio
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

$alsamixer
cannot open mixer: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

$ pacman -Qs gstreamer
local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.25-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework
local/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.16-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugin libraries (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.16-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugins (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.25-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.25-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)
local/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.9-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    Gstreamer FFMpeg Plugin
local/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.16-2
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.16-2 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good)
local/gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.17-1
    Python bindings for GStreamer 0.10
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.13-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.13-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly Plugins (gst-plugins-ugly)

$ pacman -Qs alsa
local/alsa-lib 1.0.21.a-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsa-oss 1.0.17-1
    OSS compatibility library
local/alsa-utils 1.0.21-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsaplayer 0.99.80-3
    A heavily multi-threaded PCM player that tries to excercise the ALSA library
    and driver quite a bit.
local/gnome-alsamixer 0.9.6-3
    Gnome ALSA mixer
local/lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.21.a-1 (lib32)
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support

Decapsuleur

Member

Registered: 2008-06-30

Posts: 14

Re: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

I've got the same problem here. Using an Audigy 2 sound card under x86_64.

Decapsuleur

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Registered: 2008-06-30

Posts: 14

Re: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

I found a way to fix the problem. Turns out the culprits are gstreamer0.10-good and gstreamer0.10-good-plugins (both at 0.10.16-2). Simply revert those two packages to 0.10.16-1 and reboot. I hope the next version will contain a fix.

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/gstreamer0.10-good-0.10.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-0.10.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

(if you had cleared your pacman cache, you can still get the gstreamer 0.10.16-1 packages at http://www.schlunix.org/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/)

kmiernik

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 50

Re: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

I had the same issue. After an update I got the same messages and no sound. However in my case it was not gstreamer update (which I did a week ago) but latest hal 0.5.13-3. After downgrading to hal 0.5.13-2 I got my sound work again. I believe it is not specific to x86 but to sound card - I have the same "ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)".

K'niyl

Member

Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 6

Re: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

I had the same issue. After an update I got the same messages and no sound. However in my case it was not gstreamer update (which I did a week ago) but latest hal 0.5.13-3. After downgrading to hal 0.5.13-2 I got my sound work again. I believe it is not specific to x86 but to sound card - I have the same "ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)".

That's it, none of the gstreamer or alsa downgrade worked but hal downgrade made the sound to come back.

Thank you.

sleeper1320

Member

Registered: 2009-07-29

Posts: 6

Re: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

$ lspci | grep Audi
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

I reverted hal before I touched anything else, and it solved my problem. For those who use NetworkManager, I was able to ignore the dependency conflict without any issues (so far).