cannot adjust volume in audacious

Solour · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 107

Hi,

I cannot adjust the volume of the playback in audacious
Currently I am using alsamixer for that purpose...
What could cause that problem?

Thank you very much.

revdep-rebuild does not complain
I am using
media-sound/audacious-1.5.1-r1
media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.19-r2
media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.19
media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.19
media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.19
media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.17
media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.19

VinzC · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:26 am Post subject:

What do you mean «can't adjust the volume»? Is the volume slider unmovable? Or is it not displayed? Or does it move but the volume doesn't change?
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Solour · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 107

It is displayed,
I can move it,
the modified volume level is displayed in the "autoscoll display" of audacious while I am trying to change the volume level,
but the actual volume does not change...

Presumably the message from audacious to the driver? is lost in some way without audacious noticing it. (Just a wild guess)

VinzC · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:33 am Post subject:

Or audacious didn't select the right thing for volume management. I know there are some applications that allow you to select what volume will be adjusted: master, PCM... Does audacious have such a feature? Otherwise you might want to change this setting against your audio properties. What desktop manager do you run?
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Solour · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 107

audacious
> preferences
> audio
> output plugin preferences
> mixer device := Master
solved it.

There was a really strange entry with unrecognizable symbols...

Thanks for pointing me there... should have searched there in the first place...