Bug 59360

Summary: kmix cannot change alsa volume, always muted.
Product: [Applications] kmix Reporter: Chris Smith <chris.rs>
Component: generalAssignee: Christian Esken <esken>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Chris Smith 2003-06-05 04:17:15 UTC 
Version:           KMix: 1.91 (KDE: 3.1.90 (CVS >= 20030225)) (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2 20030322 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.2-r3, propolice) Gentoo Linux 1.4
OS:          Linux

First off, I apologise for the broken english in the title :\

I'm running KDE from CVS (updated KDE-Multimedia this morning (5/June/2003). I have a FM-801 Sound card running ALSA from a 2.5 kernel (2.5.69-mm1).

Previous to this, I was running KDE 3.1.1, and the mixer in that was perfect. It used the OSS mixer (I assume, as the mixer in the CVS KDE has a whole lot more sliders to control).

Anyway, as soon as I run KDE-CVS, it renders my sound devices totally useless. They are all there, and they are all taking data from music programs, but I cannot change the volume of any of the devices, even from externel mixers (alsamixer, ermixer etc...). However, If I start my PC and don't load KDE-CVS, I can change the volume from KDE-3.1.1, or any external mixer and it works fine. It's just KDE-CVS and it's attempted mixer control that seems to break everything. I only have the one soundcard, but the Kmix in KDE-CVS seems to think I have 2 (well, two mixers anyway).

Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris.
Comment 1 Christian Esken 2003-09-13 00:51:23 UTC 
I see that you are running KDE CVS. Can you please update and re-test with 
current KDE CVS. The "2 mixers" problem should definitely be solved, and I would 
like feedback about your other problem. 
Thanks, 
 Chris
Comment 2 Anders E. Andersen 2003-12-11 07:52:28 UTC 
I also have this problem.

I am using kernel 2.6-test9 with ALSA compiled in. When I open KMix there is no mixer panel available, and if I try to create one there is no available mixers in the dropdown button.

I am not using OSS emulation.

Anders
Comment 3 Anders E. Andersen 2003-12-11 15:20:25 UTC 
Hmm.. This might not be entirely applicable to my problem after all.

Do you need a special configure option to get access to native alsa mixer panels in kmix?
Comment 4 Christian Esken 2003-12-13 11:38:04 UTC 
No, you do not need a special configure option to get access to native alsa mixer panels. What you need is a recent KMix version (from KDE CVS, which will ship with KDE3.2).
This version has no means to manually create a mixer panel anymore. It automatically creates the Panels.

Chros
Comment 5 Anders E. Andersen 2003-12-13 11:51:31 UTC 
Please, you can't expect people to just use cvs.

I use debian sid which currently contain some kind of mix from different versions of KDE. KMix is currently version 3.1.2.

The problem here is that it needs to be configured with the options

./configure --enable-audio=oss,alsa --with-alsa

There is a debian bugreport for this here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=223768

Regards

Anders E. Andersen
Comment 6 Chris Smith 2004-05-11 11:17:07 UTC 
Good idea about the bugzilla mailout. Had forgotton about this bug.

RESOLVED :)
Comment 7 Chris Smith 2004-05-11 11:17:54 UTC 
err i mucked up. maybe this time ;)