GNOME and the sound

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

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?

Thank you.

jomen · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:59 am Post subject:

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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ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

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.

Thank you.

EvaSDK · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject:

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.

jomen · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:18 am Post subject:

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?

EvaSDK · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:23 am Post subject:

uh that's right, he'd need gnome-audio package.

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

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

Thank you.

P.S.: I have gnome-audio.

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

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

Thank you.

Timbers2k · Apprentice Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 215

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.

Timbers2k · Apprentice Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 215

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

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5934

Moved from Desktop Environments to Multimedia... and moved one from Multimedia to Duplicate Threads. :wink:

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Timbers2k · Apprentice Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 215

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.

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

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...

Thank you.