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ONEEYEMAN
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:23 am    Post subject: GNOME and the sound Reply with quote

Hi, ALL,
I have GNOME installed. In one of the bars I have an icon for sound.
When I do a mouse hoover over it, I am receiving the tooltip that reads: "Master: 77%".
When I do "Desktop"->"Preferences"->"Sound" and on the "Sound" tab select the button to play a sound nothing happened.

What am I missing?

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

left-click will bring up the slider to adjust the master-volume
turn the mouse-wheel while over it will do the same

your PCM channel might be muted?
right click the symbol and select ... (I don't know how it is called in english - I use a localized version)
in "settings" you can control what sliders you want to see whenever you bring that window up
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jomen,
Sorry for the late reply. I was in the area without inet access... :(
Neither of your suggestions does not help.
1. Increasing the sound up to 100% is not produce anything.
2. The PCM channel is not muted and it's on the same level as Master.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the menu you are getting to is for the sound daemon (esd). If you don't have this use flag and the esound service started there is little change it'll work.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

actually:
I explicitly disabled this USE-flag and don't have esd running nor do I use it
and still everything works fine
maybe the alsa service is not running?
Code:
/etc/init.d/alsasound status

or he is trying to play a sample sound which is not installed
are you referring to the sound test function or are you trying to play a sound to test if it is working
on the "devices" tab there are "test" buttons - these should work
on the next tab there are specific sounds which will only play if actually installed and available - not the case for me
but sound works fine since forever
I'd try "alsamixer" and check for muted lines
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

uh that's right, he'd need gnome-audio package.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanx, guys.
Where do I pickup those sound files?

Thank you.

P.S.: I have gnome-audio.

Code:

IgorsGentooOnNetwork igor # emerge -pv gnome-audio

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] gnome-extra/gnome-audio-2.0.0  USE="-debug" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB


P.P.S.: jomen, I don't know how you managed to play them, but when I tried to hit the play button, it replied with

Code:

You don't have a gnome-audio package installed.


or something like this..
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, where are those sound files?
"Beep" for example?

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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm having a similar problem. Sound in Gnome has quit recently. I'm not sure what update killed it, since all other sounds are working fine. Mplayer, quake4, WoW with wine all work fine, but the sounds in gnome will not play. When I go into the "Sound Preferences" I get an error pop-up that says the device can not be opened. But it doesn't tell me what device it is trying to open. I don't have esd installed, and selecting Auto or Alsasound makes no difference. About the only thing I use sound with in gnome is Pidgin, and that is how I noticed it wasn't working. The error occurs when I press any of the "Test" buttons for sound playback.

It is a x86_64 system with a via82 built in sound card. I use in kernel alsa and the latest alsa libs. As I said, sound in everything else I've tried works fine. But it would be nice to have the sounds in Pidgin again so I can tell when someone is trying to talk to me.
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, no one has any ideas about my sound problem in Gnome? Is there some way to get more information about the error? Any logs I can look at?

thanks
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Desktop Environments to Multimedia... and moved one from Multimedia to Duplicate Threads. :wink:
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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My problem is solved. I had an asound.conf file in /etc from some problems I had years ago. Removed that and now everything is working.
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK,
Upgrading GNOME to 2.20 does not help.
I have a sound without problems, it just I can't play those.

Maybe I just missing the sound files? But I have everything installed...

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