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darkcoder

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From: A bar near you

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 310

gnome volume control cannot find device

I setup my system with kernel 2.6, and devfs.  Follow the alsa guide and install alsa-libs and alsa-utils, and perform all the installation steps including the script.  The system has sound, but Gnome warns on startup that /dev/mixer cannot be found.  Also click on the Volume Control applet give the error that not devices can be found.

Search on the net and found some info on a link to a Gentoo Forum post where someone recomend an gst-plugins-alsa that is not available on Arch.  Is there another way to get the volume applet in Gnome to work?

sorcerer

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Registered: 2005-02-25

Posts: 18

Re: gnome volume control cannot find device

have you checked that the user is in the audio group? or at least has rights to your /dev/mixer?

darkcoder

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From: A bar near you

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 310

Re: gnome volume control cannot find device

it's in the audio group.  Since I´m using devfs where do I check if it has rights to /dev/mixer?

sorcerer

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Registered: 2005-02-25

Posts: 18

Re: gnome volume control cannot find device

just do a 'ls -l /dev/mixer' and see if the permissions are set correct, probably something like

crw-rw----  1 root audio 14, 0 2005-02-28 15:20 /dev/mixer

should be correct. (the second 'rw' meaning group (audio) has read/write access)