Volume applet for gnome?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Sun May 24 13:34:56 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 04:56 -0600, Lawrence E. Graves wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 15:37 +1000, Greg wrote:
> > On 24/05/2009 2:50 PM, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> > > Hi.  I got my F11 preupdate to work; I think maybe an anaconda update
> > > did the trick.  So now I'm running F11.  I've run into a few issues.
> > > I used to have an audio volume applet installed in my gnome panel,
> > > which made it convenient to quickly adjust the volume.    When I first
> > > logged in under F11, it put up a dialog that said something about that
> > > applet no longer exisitng.  I don't see an obvious replacement.  Is
> > > there something else I could use or install?  (I guess I'll ask about
> > > other issues in other mails as necessary....)
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > -- Reid
> > >
> > >     Try running at a console:
> > >
> > >     alsamixer -c0
> > >
> > >     that should give you access to the 'real' hardware volume controls
> > >     for your card. You may need to boost one of those to get full volume.
> > >
> > that may get you more sound volume
> > 
> 
> Install gst-mixer either at root or yum extender.  Then go to
> system/preference/Advanced sound and there it is

Neither of those is really the answer, though, the new applet should
replace the old one smoothly...has anyone else noticed this on an
upgrade? Reid, is the package gnome-media installed?
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