FC3 gnome-volume-control broken
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sun Jul 3 04:50:57 UTC 2005
At 10:57 PM -0400 7/2/05, Bill R. Williams wrote:
>System:
>Linux 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386
>GNU/Linux
>
>Somewhere along the line my gnome-volume-control stopped working.
>It *was* working in FC3 and I seldom mess with it unless I'm doing something
>which requires the mixer -- like recording from an LP!
>Which means I have no idea what/when it got broken. (Perhaps an
>update? I've about given up using SElinux; seems like every update to
>selinux-policy-targeted kills something and I have to turn it off!)
>Sorry, got off on a tangent, there.
>
>Using the speaker icon on my task bar is futile:
> Attempting move the slider -- it just reverts to BOTTOM.
> Attempting to R-Click->Open Volume Control gets an error box
> which says:
> Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found.
>
>The sound works!
>Furthermore, alsamixer works. aumix/xaumix work.
>Somewhere along the line Gnome has lost the ability to "see" my sound
>devices. Anybody else seen this or have any clues?
>
>My built-in sound card Driver: snd-intel8x0
>According to Hardware Browser:
> nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Controller (MCP)
>
>AlsaMixer v1.0.6 (which sees *all* the goodies) says:
>Card: NVidia nForce2
>Chip: Realtek ALC650F
This fixed the problem for me:
At 10:22 PM -0400 6/23/05, James Walker wrote:
>Hi,
>I had the same problem; my sound was working but the gnome volume controller
>was not. I found a solution on a forum somewhere. As root run:
>gst-register-0.8
>-James
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