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ilmorris

Member

Registered: 2005-07-28

Posts: 55

Xfce4-mixer blank.

Howdy,

I seem to be having some trouble with xfce4-mixer.  When I open it, it shows as completely blank.  No controls show up at all.  Alsamixer shows options, and allows me to alter them.  But I am unable to get xfce4-mixer to recognize controls at all.

I can confirm I am in the audio group also.

Alsamixer
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xfce4-mixer default Selected
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xfce4-mixer intel selected
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xfce4-mixer blank
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When I run xfce4-mixer from command line, from either root or my user, I get the following:

$ xfce4-mixer
alsa: error: master control not found. I even tried to guess wildly, but to no avail.
alsa: info: developer information follows: (send E-Mail to Developer with that)
alsa: * Headphone,0
alsa: * Front,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic Boost,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Surround,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Center,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * LFE,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Side,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Line,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * CD,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic Boost,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * IEC958,0
alsa: * PC Speaker,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Capture,0
alsa: * Capture,1
alsa: * Channel Mode,0
alsa: * Input Source,0
alsa: * Input Source,1
alsa: info: end of developer information
alsa: error: master control not found. I even tried to guess wildly, but to no avail.
alsa: info: developer information follows: (send E-Mail to Developer with that)
alsa: * Headphone,0
alsa: * Front,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic Boost,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Surround,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Center,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * LFE,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Side,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Line,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * CD,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic Boost,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * IEC958,0
alsa: * PC Speaker,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Capture,0
alsa: * Capture,1
alsa: * Channel Mode,0
alsa: * Input Source,0
alsa: * Input Source,1
alsa: info: end of developer information
alsa: error: master control not found. I even tried to guess wildly, but to no avail.
alsa: info: developer information follows: (send E-Mail to Developer with that)
alsa: * Headphone,0
alsa: * Front,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic Boost,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Surround,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Center,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * LFE,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Side,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Line,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * CD,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic Boost,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * IEC958,0
alsa: * PC Speaker,0  <--- hint hint
alsa: * Capture,0
alsa: * Capture,1
alsa: * Channel Mode,0
alsa: * Input Source,0
alsa: * Input Source,1
alsa: info: end of developer information

Any help is greatly appreciated.

ilmorris

Member

Registered: 2005-07-28

Posts: 55

Re: Xfce4-mixer blank.

I have tested this with the gnome mixer, and gnome mixer appears to work normally.  The issue seems isolated to the xfce4-mixer.

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Xfce4-mixer blank.

try to remove the mixer applet and readd it to the panel. if that won't help reinstall the mixer pkg and remove/readd it again.

ilmorris

Member

Registered: 2005-07-28

Posts: 55

Re: Xfce4-mixer blank.

try to remove the mixer applet and readd it to the panel. if that won't help reinstall the mixer pkg and remove/readd it again.

Tried both of these, neither appears to have corrected the issue.

scarecrow

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Xfce4-mixer blank.

I'm knocking this old thread to report I had that very same problem... xfce4-mixer does not seem able to detect the soundcard and write an initial configuration file by itself.
The solution I found was very ugly, but it worked: I installed gnome-alsamixer, made all necessary settings and then closed it. Now xfce4-mixer can detect the soundcard fine- quite obviously using the gnome-alsamixer config.
PS: On one instance of it I can also get the mixer settings by logging X as root (NOT running "sudo xfce4-mixer" - for some reason it doesn't work), setting everything up and running "alsactl store" and the logging back as normal user. Obviously it's a permissions issue, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to find out what's happening.

Last edited by scarecrow (2007-11-01 15:18:52)

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