On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:59:53 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: > Nick Rout schreef: > > When I log into gnome I get a dialog with the following message: > > > > "Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found" > > > > Advcie from google and forums.g.o seems to point to the following > > likely solutions: > > > > 1. make sure user has ability to do audio - yes I can, and everything > > I run in gnome produces audio output when it should (mplayer, xmms, > > mpg123, xine, whatever) > > > > 2. run gst-register-0.8 - done it, more than once. Doesn't complain > > about any problems, but makes no difference even after a reboot. > > > > Thats about a summary of the suggested fixes and the results. I > > figured that the error seemed to be on running gnome-volume-control, > > so when i run it from an xterm I get the following: > > I would suggest: > > Open the GNOME control panel and check the following settings: > > Sound: Is "enable sound system on startup" checked or not? Just note, > for the time being. > > If it is set, then you likely need to check rc-update show, to make sure > the esound service is started. > This will route everything GNOME through the esd sound server. This may > or may not be how you want to run it. > > If it is not set, then everything should be running through ALSA-- but > GNOME may not be prepared to deal with that, as it expects to run ESD. > > You can either 'fix' GNOME so it runs through ALSA, or you can run ESD. > > If you want to 'fix' GNOME, go to "Multimedia systems' and basically > screw around with the audio sinks until you can get test sounds from > both tests. On my system, this requires that the standard output and > standard source be set to OSS (Alsa seems to hang or crash, but since I > have ALSA OSS emulation on, I don't worry about it, because it's still > using ALSA anyway). > > Then turn off esd (rc-update del esound default). > > Log out and in, and hopefully GNOME should now use the ALSA (OSS) devices. > > If you want to use ESD, then in the Multimedia section, set the output > and source to ESD, and make sure that esound is running in rc-update (if > it is not already running, then try starting it with /etc/init.d/esound > start). Make sure that the 'enable sound server at startup' is set in > the Sound panel, log out and back in, and ESD should work. > > Oh, and whatever route you choose, you probably want to remove the mixer > from your panel, then re-add it to prevent other panel weirdnesses that > seem to occur when you have to do this (which you always do, because the > gnome-mixer-applet is apparently so stupid that it can't detect the > environment properly; I've never had it work out-of-the-box. Ever. And > I've been using GNOME for quite a while).
Thank you Holly, this looks very thorough, and I'll look into it again tonight at home. I am a recent gnome convert, quite enjoying a change from kde and xfce. One thing, how do I remove the mixer from the panel when it doesn't show up on the panel (due to terminating with my original error message as the panel is starting). Thanks. > > Hope this helps, > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
