From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:22:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:22:45 -0400 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.59.2]:62267 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:22:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3A23C5.6070601@kalifornia.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:19:49 -0700 From: Ben Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010625 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, progeny-debian@lists.progeny.com Subject: Re: mixer (was: eye candy) In-Reply-To: <20010627175440.A2562@progeny> <3B3A10D9.6040605@kalifornia.com> <3B3A13EE.9000906@webninja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Caleb Shay wrote: > I'm thinking that this may be a gmix bug as ANY other mixer I try > works (so I've just switched to using aumix-gtk). However, it's > probably a kernel bug also since now "cat /dev/sndstat" no longer > returns anything. I'm assuming (though I haven't looked at the source) > that gmix checks sndstat to see what card(s) you have while other > mixers just attempt to open /dev/mixer. gmix's solution is actually > better since it lets it handle multiple soundcards/mixers, so ignore > my first statement. This is a kernel bug. Are you sure of that? I have another box that works fine, including gmix. However, cat /dev/sndstat give me the no such device error. >> This sounds as if it is a known problem. I just installed a Progeny >> box for my wife and recompiled a kernel for her box. There is sound >> support, but gmix won't work. It says "no mixers found". However, >> the gnome panel applet for volume will work just fine. >> >> What do I need to do to take care of this? >> >> -b >> >> (Yamaha YMF724, 2.4.5 kernel) >> -- : __o : -\<, : 0/ 0 -----------