gnome problems

[Deleted member 21660]

Hi all,

I am using gnome, gdm, and compiz for my UI. I have a few concerns.

a. I do not get sound out of my audio out, just laptop speakers.
b. I cannot control the volume with the volume up / down keys even though it is configured.
c. no devices show up in the audio applet (for hardware, even though there are 3 devices in output).
d. when I play audio (it does work), the applications tab indicates no applications are currently playing.


I installed the packages via [cmd=]pkg_add -r <package-name>[/cmd] Sometimes I cannot install packages as it complains it cannot download a file. My other question is are packages not available for all ports?

Thanks,

Walter

 

[nakal]

Can you show us the output of:

cat /dev/sndstat

?

 

[adamk]

The gnome volume and audio stuff uses pulseaudio. I would guess that items B & D happen because the applications in question aren't configured to use pulseaudio. Pulseaudio is also heavily geared towards alsa, which might explain why your sound devices aren't showing up as devices in the audio applet.

 

[Deleted member 21660]

Hi,

Thanks for your help.

This is my output:

FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <HDA Realtek ALC268 PCM #0 Analog> (play/rec) default
pcm1: <HDA Realtek ALC268 PCM #1 Analog> (play)
pcm2: <HDA Realtek ALC268 PCM #2 Digital> (play)

Walter

 

[nakal]

The output of sndstat looks ok.

adamk is right. I've seen pulseaudio support in FreeBSD ports as default, too. It does not work for me, either (or I don't know how to make it work). I compile from ports and switch off the pulseaudio support everywhere.

 

[Deleted member 21660]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply - installing from ports is not too difficult or time consuming so I can go that route. I'll give that a try.

Thanks,

Walter