4:21 p.m.
Hi,
I'm trying to run pnmixer in my xfce systray because it's nicer than the
default xfce4-mixer, and because I can run pavucontrol from there.
But I have a strange problem. Supposedly pnmixer can deal with ALSA and
PulseAudio(*). ALSA appears to work, but there's no way to control
PulseAudio channels for some reason. For the main volume control I have
only the choice between my two ALSA devices, an USB headset and the
internal HDA ATI SB card.
While controlling the volume of the headset works fine, when choosing
any of the channels of the SB card, changing the volume has no effect at
all (works in pavucontrol, though). Neither has the mute button.
Yes, I tried "Reload ALSA" multiple times with no effect at all.
In contrast, if I start xfce4-mixer, I have not only the choice between
the USB headset, and the HDA ATI SB also device, but I have additional
choices from PulseAudio. If I choose HDA ATI SB (Alsa Device), xfce4-mixer
can't change the volume of the device either. if I choose the matching
PulseAudio device "Playback: Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)",
the xfce4-mixer volume control works.
As a sidenote, when changing the device in pnmixer's preference dialog,
after pressing the OK button an error dialog pops up, telling me "Mixer
detach error: No such file or directory". I have no idea what it's
trying to tell me.
Does anybody know how I can get pnmixer to recogize the PulseAudio
channels and use them for its volume control? Or if I'm doing something
wrong, can anybody tell me what that is?
Thanks,
Corinna
(*) https://github.com/nicklan/pnmixer/wiki/
4:21 a.m.
Hi Corina,
Ok, let's see what happens inside. I'd like to ask you to provide some
more details that can help us to produce a bugreport, or much better a
solution for everyone.
Please answer to the following questions:
- Witch Fedora version you have?
- Kernel version (run uname -a in terminal)
- Hardver params (run 'dmesg | fpaste' and 'lsmod | dmesg' without
qoutes. If necessary, please install the fpaste app from repo). With
the fpaste app you can have shortened links, what contains the
temporary output for us, and doesn't blow up the mail content.
- Version of pnmixer?
plus one question: Did you tried volumeicon mixer?
Thx,
Zoltan
4:21 p.m.
On 06/20/2013 02:21 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Does anybody know how I can get pnmixer to recogize the PulseAudio
channels and use them for its volume control? Or if I'm doing something
wrong, can anybody tell me what that is?
I presume that you're starting xfce4-mixer from a menu. Try opening it
in a terminal and see if there are any error messages.
2:37 p.m.
On 06/21/2013 02:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Erm, no, I said pnmixer is giving me trouble. With xfce4-mixer I
can
change the volume of the PulseAUdio channel for the internal audio
card fine.
OK, I sit corrected. However, I know that I copied xfce4-mixer from
your email. Still, the important thing is that it's not sending error
messages to a terminal, and that means that it's not part of what's wrong.
4:41 a.m.
On Jun 21 11:21, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
Hi Corina,
Ok, let's see what happens inside. I'd like to ask you to provide some
more details that can help us to produce a bugreport, or much better a
solution for everyone.
Please answer to the following questions:
Sure.
- Witch Fedora version you have?
F18
- Kernel version (run uname -a in terminal)
$ uname -svr
Linux 3.9.5-201.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 11 19:40:51 UTC 2013
but that's in the dmesg output as well.
- Hardver params (run 'dmesg | fpaste' and 'lsmod |
dmesg' without
You meant lsmod | fpaste, right?
dmesg output: http://ur1.ca/ee5gg
lsmod output: http://ur1.ca/ee5hy
- Version of pnmixer?
pnmixer-0.5.1-4.fc18.x86_64
plus one question: Did you tried volumeicon mixer?
Not yet, I didn't know this one. Thanks for mentioning it. I just
installed it and it allows to change the volume of the internal sound
card and to start pavucontrol directly, yay! I just didn't find a way
to switch the volume control to my USB headset. The device drop-down
contains only a single entry: "Master". But that's not much of a
problem since the headset has its own volume control.
I like the layout of pnmixer more, but if this problem can't be fixed,
volumeicon is a working compromise. Thanks again!
Corinna
4 a.m.
Hi Joe,
On Jun 20 23:54, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/20/2013 02:53 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>xfce4-mixer or pnmixer? If you meant pnmixer, I started it from a
>console, too, but the only error message printed to stderr is this
>GUI-related message (occurs often while toying with pnmixer):
I suggested xfce4-mixer because that's what you'd said was giving
you trouble. I take it, then, that running it from a terminal
didn't give you any errors?
Erm, no, I said pnmixer is giving me trouble. With xfce4-mixer I can
change the volume of the PulseAUdio channel for the internal audio
card fine.
I just said that xfce4-mixer can't change the volume of the ALSA "HDA
ATI SB" device, same as pnmixer can't. Apparently (just a guess) this
device is under control of PulseAudio, so that only changing the volume
of the PulseAudio channel works as expected, but not changing the volume
of the underlying ALSA hardware device.
Unfortunately the PulseAudio channels don't show up in the device
dialog of pnmixer, so I have no chance to attach pnmixer to any of the
PulseAudio channels, despite pnmixer's supposed PulseAudi capability :(
Corinna
3:54 a.m.
Hi Zoltan,
On Jun 21 02:30, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
If you would like to use the pnmixer - then you have to know that
mixer is colliding with pavucontrol and therefore can kill pulse too
in bad timing. The solution is:
Look for the automatically starting apps, and as commandline parameter
you have to give out wait cycles, till everything loads, else you get
crash.
Thanks for the hint, but I don't get a crash at all. At startup, only
pnmixer is loaded into the systray. I only start pavucontrol
occassionally from there via the "Volume Control..." button to switch an
appication from the headset to the internal audio card or vice versa.
Also, if I have pavucontrol and some application producing sound output
running, I can stop and restart pnmixer without any crash, but
unfortunately without any change in behaviour, too.
So, pnmixer as well as pavucontrol load and work, except that pnmixer
seems to be unable to change the volume of the internal audio card, as
described in my OP.
Or am I missing something here?
THanks,
Corinna
1:54 a.m.
On 06/20/2013 02:53 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
xfce4-mixer or pnmixer? If you meant pnmixer, I started it from a
console, too, but the only error message printed to stderr is this
GUI-related message (occurs often while toying with pnmixer):
I suggested xfce4-mixer because that's what you'd said was giving you
trouble. I take it, then, that running it from a terminal didn't give
you any errors?
7:30 p.m.
If you would like to use the pnmixer - then you have to know that
mixer is colliding with pavucontrol and therefore can kill pulse too
in bad timing. The solution is:
Look for the automatically starting apps, and as commandline parameter
you have to give out wait cycles, till everything loads, else you get
crash.
HTH
Zoltan
2013/6/20 Corinna Vinschen <fedora(a)cygwin.de>:
On Jun 20 14:21, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/20/2013 02:21 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Does anybody know how I can get pnmixer to recogize the PulseAudio
> >channels and use them for its volume control? Or if I'm doing something
> >wrong, can anybody tell me what that is?
>
> I presume that you're starting xfce4-mixer from a menu. Try opening
> it in a terminal and see if there are any error messages.
xfce4-mixer or pnmixer? If you meant pnmixer, I started it from a
console, too, but the only error message printed to stderr is this
GUI-related message (occurs often while toying with pnmixer):
(pnmixer:11197): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion
`GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
Corinna
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4:53 p.m.
On Jun 20 14:21, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/20/2013 02:21 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Does anybody know how I can get pnmixer to recogize the PulseAudio
>channels and use them for its volume control? Or if I'm doing something
>wrong, can anybody tell me what that is?
I presume that you're starting xfce4-mixer from a menu. Try opening
it in a terminal and see if there are any error messages.
xfce4-mixer or pnmixer? If you meant pnmixer, I started it from a
console, too, but the only error message printed to stderr is this
GUI-related message (occurs often while toying with pnmixer):
(pnmixer:11197): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion
`GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
Corinna
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