xterm goes black when I type in alsamixer

Amu · n00b Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 9 Location: SoCal

I use fluxbox. When I launch xterm inside X and type alsamixer, the xterm window goes black. Anyone know why?

grunthus · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:39 am Post subject:

How about running trace on it, which might let you see if its segfaulting in a particular library:

Amu · n00b Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 9 Location: SoCal

It say:

xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set

grunthus · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

OK, instead of using fluxbox, can you try running alsamixer in a console based VT, e.g. CTRL+ALT+F1?
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Amu · n00b Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 9 Location: SoCal

When I press CRTL+ALT+F1 it exists xterm and I get a bunch of errors.

grunthus · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject:

When you switch to VT with CTRL+ALT+F1 you are leaving X temporarily and if you log in on the console then you are not needing to use an xterm. If you log in at the console in text only (no X), if you are getting errors at that point, that would suggest something is adrift with your system. Can you make a note of some of the errors and post them here?

If you can log at the console without errors, proceed and run alsamixer, paste some of the errors here.

(I'm assuming that you have run alsaconfig as root already right?)
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