On Sunday Sep 09 12:13 Craig Holyoak wrote: > ** I'm having some strange behaviour with my mixer settings. I'm using gmix > ** under gnome, and have it set to restore mixer settings on startup. This > ** doesn't work - all sound levels are still set to zero. So I added gmix > ** -i to my startup items, and now when I log in, I get an error message > ** saying that either there is no mixer device or I don't have permission > ** to access the mixer device, but I am a member of the audio group. After > ** I've logged in though, I can open gmix and it sets all my levels > ** properly.
I had a very similar problem. The reason of this two problems could be the same. I also couln't start gmix and get the error message either i have no permission or there is no /dev/mixer. In my example it was Gnome that was not set right for gmix. After i anabled sound server startup and sound events in Gnome control center. I could use gmix without this error message. In your case i think the sound server of Gnome is not running in this time while you use gmix- i as startup item. You should start gmix -i after the sound server has started. Why your gmix don't remember his settings is a riddle for my. Gmix should do this if set in properties. My gmix does this. Timo -- Wer Käse mag, der futtert auch Füsse! :-)