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[Solved] Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 17 Oct 2013, 15:01
by freestyler
hi I have been using proteus for a week and its quickly becoming my favorite distro, its really impressive! However i cant figure out how to get sound working on xfce. The panel does not show the volume icon, I have tried install the panel plugin (xfce4-volumed) as a separate module and also messed around with alsamixer but cant figure it out.
I am using proteus 2.1.
SOUND CARDS:
HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6250/6310]
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Please let me know if you need more info
cheers
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 17 Oct 2013, 15:08
by fanthom
hi freestyler,
please open Porteus Settings Centre -> System settings -> Sound settings and set ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) as default card (also do a sound test to confirm that it's working).
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 17 Oct 2013, 16:02
by freestyler
hi, I changed the default to HDA ATI SB and still no sound or xfce mixer. I'm not sure why i cant even add a mixer on the panel. any thoughts?
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 17 Oct 2013, 17:11
by francois
Please try in command line alsamixer to see if you can get some sound.
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 17 Oct 2013, 18:02
by freestyler
I played with alsamixer but still cant get any sound. Is there a reason why xfce wont recognize sound settings?
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 17 Oct 2013, 19:56
by brokenman
I have the same problem on my new laptop. The mixer applet shows but I get no sound. Changing the HDMI to the second device using the sound card tool doesn't work. Interestingly after compiling gnome-3.8 (with pulseaudio) the sound works. In your case I think we need to see a dump of: xpsinfo
Please upload the full information dump from the Porteus Settings Centre system information tool to pastebin and link here. It would be nice to see when and why the mixer applet crashes (perhaps this info is shown in dmesg or /var/log/messages).
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 18 Oct 2013, 01:49
by freestyler
hi thanks for all the quick responses. here is my
xpsinfo. Strange I cant even get the mixer applet to show, its like its not installed. here is my
dmesg. I didnt notice any sound related problems but then again im no pro. here is
/var/log/messages.
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 18 Oct 2013, 09:21
by fanthom
i think xfce suffered to some sound related troubles in 2.1 release (cant find a thread right now) so maybe you could try another desktop?
you can download standalone modules from here:
http://dl.porteus.org/x86_64/current/modules/
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 18 Oct 2013, 11:18
by freestyler
i guess this is a good excuse to give razorqt a try
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 18 Oct 2013, 12:10
by brokenman
If it works under a different desktop it could be a GTK theme issue.
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Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "equinox",
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
The correct driver is being loaded so this doesn't explain the lack of sound.
When testing please boot into always fresh mode. I notice you have a 0099-settings.xzm module being loaded and we would prefer your to boot to the original fresh vanilla Porteus for trouble shooting.
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 21 Oct 2013, 07:05
by freestyler
brokenman wrote:
When testing please boot into always fresh mode. I notice you have a 0099-settings.xzm module being loaded and we would prefer your to boot to the original fresh vanilla Porteus for trouble shooting.
no worries.
I couldent get sound to work on any DE. Is there something that could be done with the gtk/equinox?
Re: Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 21 Oct 2013, 08:47
by fanthom
sound card selector from PSC does not work as in this case we are dealing with the same driver used for both cards.
please try the solution ( ~\.asoundrc file) from this thread:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... conf#p5713
Re: [Solved] Sound and volume plugin missing
Posted: 21 Oct 2013, 13:43
by freestyler
Nice one! Sound works. Well done and thanks for the help. I would have never worked that out.
I downloaded
asoundconf.tar.gz and followed the
instructions you gave.
Sweet!