Bug#282745: gnome-media: gnome-volume-control fails to find OSS
mixer device
Michael.Wardle@leighmardon.com.au, 282745@bugs.debian.org
Michael.Wardle@leighmardon.com.au, 282745@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:30:04 +1100
Package: gnome-media
Version: 2.6.2-1
Severity: important
Using the Debian Installer RC2 to perform a fresh install of a Debian
desktop system, I ended up with Linux 2.4.27, and automatically
configured OSS i810_audio drivers for my Intel onboard sound card.
The sound card appears to work fine (for instance, invoking "esd" with
no arguments gives the expected startup beeps), yet my GNOME Desktop
mixer shows a zero volume level, and clicking "Open Volume Control" on
the volume control applet's context menu shows an error dialog box:
Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found
Performing an strace on gnome-volume-control shows that it is attempting
to open all manner of ALSA-style mixer device files such as:
- /dev/snd/controlC0
- /dev/aloadC0
but none of the expected (OSS) sound devices such as:
- /dev/mixer
- /dev/dsp
are probed.
It seems that somehow either the present GNOME Volume Control applet is
only able to handle ALSA sound devices or that the incorrect version of
it is chosen by the installer.
I also note that I am in the audio group (which I had to add manually)
and that the OSS device files have permissions:
crw-rw---- root audio
It would be very nice if all this worked out of the box.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU
Versions of packages gnome-media depends on:
ii gstreamer0.8-alsa [gstrea 0.8.5-1 ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.8-misc 0.8.5-1 Collection of various
GStreamer pl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-5 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-4 Open-source version of SGI's
audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-7 Bonobo CORBA interfaces
library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon -
Shared
ii libgail-common 1.6.6b-1 GNOME Accessibility
Implementation
ii libgail17 1.6.6b-1 GNOME Accessibility
Implementation
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.4-2 GNOME configuration database
syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime
libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files
at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.7-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.2.1-3 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1.2-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime
file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented
display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1cvs-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.2-2 The GNOME virtual file-system
libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9 GNU TLS library - runtime
library
ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error
values an
ii libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 0.8.5-1 GConf support for GStreamer
ii libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 0.8.5-1 Various GStreamer libraries
and li
ii libgstreamer0.8-0 0.8.7-1 Core GStreamer libraries,
plugins,
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's
JPEG
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA
ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.1-4 Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session
Management
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3 Manage ASN.1 structures
(runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol
client li
ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client
libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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