Re: GMix reports no mixer devices
Hello Jens,
I've just had this problem, following a crash. Sound on my system had
been working fine (es1371 compiled into the kernel and using esound)
until I got a complete system hang and had to hard reset. On re-boot a
lot of errors were found on my /usr partition and I had to manually fsck
it, and lots of stuff got trashed. As there was only /usr on that
partition I removed all the non-essential packages (but left the
configs, as /etc is on a different partition) and re-installed them.
This fixed all the other problems and I had sound, of a sort - it was
almost inaudiable and I still got 'no mixer devices' when I tried
starting gmix.
I then updated an old potato installation I've got on the system,
bringing it up to the current sid, and I got the same there. Hmm...
This all took a few evenings of work.
This morning it (finally) occurred to me to try reverting the
gnome-audio and gnome-media packages to older versions, and it finally
turned out that if I reverted to gnome-media 1.2.0-2 (an earlier version
I had in /var/cache/apt/archives - I keep them for this purpose and tidy
them manually, every now and then) gmix worked, and sound is now ok.
It appears then, that gnome-media 1.2.0-5 may be broken and I just
hadn't called gmix since updating it.
When I get on-line I'll have a look a the bug list and report it, if
necessary.
In hind sight, an awful lot of unnecessary work, but it was good
practice;-)
I look forward to the inclusion of reversion in dpkg:-)
LeeE
jens wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to set up sound. I had it going at one point but that was
> some time ago. I have sound compiled into the kernel (via82c686 audio
> codec for my Asus K7V board) but still get the 'no mixer devices'
> error from GMix. When I do a 'play something.wav' I get no sound but
> the system behaves like it is playing (the prompt returns at the
> approx right time). I seem to have no /dev/snd (or similar) directory.
> Do I need to create this manually (if so how)? Any other suggestions
> on how to track this down ?
>
> Jens
>
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