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Tuesday, November 22nd 2005, 8:29pm

kmix mixer error

i recently installed Debian 3.1

i had the sound mixer applet running on the taskbar, then one day i turned the computer on and it said 'select mixer' and if i open the kmix program it cant find any mixers
if i boot into GNOME then everything works fine, but i prefer kde, so there is a mixer there it nust cant find it

duz anybody know where it would have gone and/or how i can fix it??

thanx

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Thursday, December 15th 2005, 11:29am

Go to your kde control center and choose multimedia -> sound systems

in the material tab, select your material (probably it will work with the alsa drivers, depending on your soundcard). Go back to the generic tab and click the test sound button. If you hear a sound, everything is ok, else, try out another driver from the list until you hear a sound (perhaps aRts?).

Once you got that, save your settings and reopen your mixer.

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Tuesday, December 20th 2005, 7:01am

ok first off the two tabs are called 'general' and 'hardware'
but im sur etheyre the same thing......

its set to auto
and i get a sound

i changed it to open sound system
and get a sound
but the mixer still duznt work

then i changed it to advanced linux architecture
and get a sound
but the mixer still duznt work

these also get sound but no mixer:
threaded open sound system


hm......

anymore thoughts?

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Tuesday, December 20th 2005, 9:22am

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ok first off the two tabs are called 'general' and 'hardware'

Sorry, this was freely translated from my french version of KDE, I was too lazy to change to an english desktop :rolleyes:

This is strange in fact... have you completely closed kmix between your changes? (If there's the kmix icon in the taskbar, rightclick it and click on "Quit". After the change, launch kmix again - it will not take over any changes while running.

Perhaps you might also have to relaunch your sound system, even if kde does that for you it happens that changes are not applied (strage behaviour I encountered some time ago).
In your /etc/init.d you will probably find a soundserver script. On my gentoo it's called alsasound, no idea what they call it in Debian systems, but the name might be obvious. Just type in a console:

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/etc/init.d/alsasound restart

replace alsasound by whatever your script is named.

If this does not help, it could be a Devian specific bug - have you checked out Debian's buglist?

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Tuesday, December 20th 2005, 5:16pm

thanx for all the advice
but it was really a dumb problem

my user wasnt under the group 'audio'

cuz when i logged as root to either kde or gnome it would work fine
but if i logged in as myself it wouldnt
so i didnt think it was a startup script or anything
cuz that would make it not work in either

but i fixed it so now im happy

thanx again!

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Wednesday, December 21st 2005, 8:03am

I didn't even think of... but I ought know that, as I had the same problem on a machine some time ago :rolleyes: