On 10/26/2009 02:10 AM, Peter Weilbacher wrote: > On 25.10.2009 18:07, walt wrote:
>> It seems that pulseaudio has its own mixer control (not >> included in gentoo's pulseaudio package) so maybe it does >> make sense to remove that function from gnome's volume >> control applet. > > Looking at the pulseaudio documentation it seems to be a very > well-designed system. But there are so many components to it that I > found it very confusing to configure. In fact, after fiddling around > with it for two days, I gave up on that, removed USE=pulseaudio > again, and rebuilt world. > Now I only have the problem that I cannot start the GNOME "Volume > Control" applet any more. When I try I get > > Some panel items are no longer available > One or more panel items (also referred to as applets) are > no longer available in the GNOME desktop. > > These items will now be removed from your configuration: > • Volume Control You say you rebuilt world. Was gnome-media actually rebuild without the pulseaudio Use flag? That's where gnome-volume-control comes from, not from the panel applets package. BTW, you can also do nicely without the esd USE flag and esound also, but you'll need to revdep-rebuild after because lots of packages will break (but they all still work perfectly after the rebuild.)
