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Kane

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Registered: 2006-10-08

Posts: 220

xfce4-mixer and oss4

Hi guys,
Ive just replaced alsa with oss4 and the sound quality is alot better, especially in counterstrike

But im running xfce and have the xfce volume control on my panel, however it no longer detects any sound devices
It used to work fine with alsa

Running xfce4-mixer from the terminal i get this error

alsa: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

anybody know what might be causing this?
Im guessing its something to do with a configuration somewhere, but i cant seem to find anything

Thanks

depp

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From: Ulm, Germany

Registered: 2007-05-01

Posts: 51

Re: xfce4-mixer and oss4

Hi, edit the PKGBUILD, enable oss and recompile xfce4-mixer, it works perfect.

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: xfce4-mixer and oss4

It does not work for me: I have recompiles with --with-sound=oss, but it does not see my card (which works really fine with oss). Perhaps I should change device: isn't /dev/mixer or /dev/mixer0 the right ones?

Last edited by patroclo7 (2008-04-16 16:01:11)

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Kane

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Registered: 2006-10-08

Posts: 220

Re: xfce4-mixer and oss4

Thanks depp ive got it working

It does not work for me: I have recompiles with --with-sound=oss, but it does not see my card (which works really fine with oss). Perhaps I should change device: isn't /dev/mixer or /dev/mixer0 the right ones?

When i first started it up, i couldnt find any devices either and i was getting this error in the terminal

** (xfce4-mixer:4733): CRITICAL **: vc_get_volume: assertion `mixer_handle != -1' failed

But then i started it as root, and it seemed to pick it up (using /dev/mixer i think)

and i can now start it as a normal user too and it works :S ... which seems a little strange lol.

Maybe doing that ^ might help?

Kane

Edit: Is there any reason for not using OSS4? ive been used to alsa for a long time, but after trying this is seems much better.

Last edited by Kane (2008-04-17 15:26:50)

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: xfce4-mixer and oss4

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=353743

It tells you what you need.