Gnome Volume Controller OSS

Hey. I've had a look around but cannot see a solution to my question. I'm using OSSv4 and everything is working fine, however, I would like to know if it's possible to control the volume with the Gnome volume controller? If not, is there an alternative controller I can use, without having to open ossxmix every time? Cheers.

gnome volume controller using gstreamer, so you have to configure gstreamer to support oss.
i am using ossv4 too, and i at least find this solution.
use this gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-ossv4 to replace gstreamer0.10-good-plugins
and your gstreamer apps will work fine with oss.

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Hello all,
Since last update I can not start gnome-volume-control:
[romain@arch ~]$ gnome-volume-control
ERROR:misc.c:52:get_page_num: code should not be reached
Abandon
Am I the only to have the problem? How to solve it?
Regards,
Kab

Whoa! Finally someone is having the same problem as I. Unfortunately I have no solution for it
I'm using OSS since I hade trouble getting the sound to work with ALSA, maybe that is a part of the problem.
Last edited by tsvensson (2009-09-17 19:49:05)

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Hello!
Recently I performed a clean windows 7 install from a windows install disk I previously owned, the problem is that this disk didn't intalled the drivers and programs specific for this computer. What I want to know is which driver or program I need to install to make the volume controller on my computer to work again? The problem is that the volume bar that previously appeared on the screen and the "bing" sound indicating the volume level doesn't appear or sound now.
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Thanks!

Hi,
Try downloading and installing the latest HP OSD Utility on the following link.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55001-55500/sp55152.exe
After the installation has completed, restart the notebook.
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Headphones volume controller not working on new macbook pro

Hello,
I recently purchased a new macbook pro (15" late 2013) and just noticed that when plugging my headphones (beats solo HD), the volume controller in the headphones doesn't change the volume of the laptop. The headphone controller works fine on my iphone, and on my older macbook pro (2010, running on mavericks too). I checked the Sound settings under System Preferences, and under the Input tab, the new macbook doesn't recognize the headphone microphone either, which my old macbook pro still does. In terms of sound, the headphones work well, and under the Output tab, the Headphones appear, as normal. The sound can also be adjusted using the keyboard keys and the volume adjust on screen, but not with the headphones volume controller, which seems odd to me.
Is there a way to fix this?
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Hi,
I also noticed this... when I use my old earphones (the white Apple ones that come with the iphone) on my new laptop, everything works fine, including the microphone, volume control, skipping songs... etc. But my other headphones are not recognised at all, just as audio output and nothing else.
My old macbook, however, still fully recognizes both my old earphones and my "troublesome" Beats headphones, even after the latest system update, as does my iphone
So I still don't know what is happening.
Just telling you this so that you make 100% sure your earphones are faulty before discarding them!

Gnome-volume-manager and plugdev

I'm trying to work out some kinks in gnome-volume-manager0--namely, that I cannot unmount disks as a regular user. Everything I have found says that a user must be a member of the plugdev group for such things to work, so I looked around and found that I should be able to add myself to the plugdev groups like so:
usermod -G plugdev isez2001
But upon giving this command, I receive an error saying that the plugdev group is unknown.
Do I have to create the plugdev group myself? If so, why? It really seems like something that should be made to just work.

Alright, I'm a member of the storage group already.
Upon further investigation, I find that my USB flash drive is autmounted in /media under the group "root," and my DVD drive automounts under the group "-1".
I am unable to unmount either of these as a normal user.
Is there something I should do that will make disks mount under the storage group?

[SOLVED] gnome-volume-manager is lazy

Until some update that I missed all was fine. I boot, my volumes are mounted, I can see them in ROX (my main file management program).
I insert a CD/DVD/whatever, its mounted and its all in /media/.:D
But now it just does nothing, until I start Nautilus, then everything gets mounted.
I close Nautilus, and it doesnt mount anything again.
gnome-volume-manager process is up and running after login before running nautilus and after closing it too.
How can I make it behave nicely without the nuisance that Nautilus is?
Oh and Im running Openbox as the window manager in Gnome, Nautilus desktop handling disabled.
Last edited by Hohoho (2008-05-28 20:21:12)

i had the same problem.
i looked in the changelog and it appears that from now on the automount function is disabled upstream because that function is to be handled by the nautilus ( http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ … .3.changes ). For me it is a problem because i use openbox and thunar, so you just have to recompile the package with the option: "--enable-automount" .
info from:
~/Desktop/gnome-volume-manager-2.22.3 $ ./configure --help
then start it ( after recompiling with abs, for example ), but look that the path changed, now in my autostart file for openbox i have:
/usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager/gnome-volume-manager --sm-disable --daemon=yes &
hope it helps you, because this annoyed me for a long time and this is the only easy way to mount my partitions easily
Last edited by Diaz (2008-05-28 20:04:56)

Mounting drives on a udev+hal+gnome-volume-manager setup

Hi,
I set up Arch Linux on a friends computer. The setup seems to work, for example gnome-cd is started when one inserts an Audio CD. However, everything that involves mounting does not work. The error message given by gnome-volume-manager is
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems
* /bin/mount has sid set, 755, owner and file group are root
* udev is set up correctly, so /dev/hdc for example does have write rights for the group disk, and the user is member of that group.
What could be wrong?

The problem was mainly about mounting, and not about /dev/sda or /dev/hdc. We found the solution:
The "mount" binary in Arch's current is confused by the entry "managed" that hal puts in /etc/fstab. You can correct this by
a) Adding a policy file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy named, for example, local.fdi that hinders hal from doing so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 
<deviceinfo version="0.2">

<device>
<match key="info.udi" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer">
<merge key="storage.policy.default.managed_keyword.primary" type="string">user</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Then restart hal by typing
/etc/rc.d/hal restart
as root
b) Patching "mount" as described in Arch Linux bug #1930.[/code]

[SOLVED]gnome-volume-manager / hal 0.5.10 - can't deactivate automount

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL
I've created /etc/hal/policy/preferences.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
<match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
The article say "Policies" may be deprecated in hal 0.5.10. I doubt that, but i dont know what is deprecated though.
I did check the documentation out, and everything i did still seems to be valid.
http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/ha … ies-volume
Does gnome-volume-manager honor this setting in gnome 2.20?
Last edited by pelle.k (2008-02-04 20:12:51)

It would seem i solved it myself.
First of all, gnome-volume-manager need to be recompiled with a patch i found (ubuntu gutsy); http://patches.ubuntu.com/by-release/ex … hint.patch
Why this isn't included by default in gnome-volume-manager is beyond me!? You bad, bad, gnome devs!
Replace the PKGBUILD when building from ABS.
# Contributor: Link Dupont <[email protected]>
pkgname=gnome-volume-manager
pkgver=2.17.0
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="GNOME daemon to auto-mount and manage media devices"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=('GPL')
url=http://www.gnome.org/
depends=('libgnomeui>=2.20.0' 'libnotify>=0.4.4' 'gnome-mount>=0.6')
makedepends=('nautilus>=2.20.0' 'perlxml' 'pkgconfig')
install=gnome-volume-manager.install
groups=('gnome-extra')
source=(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/${pkgname}/2.17/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
gvm-mount-async.patch
gvm-check-local.patch
http://patches.ubuntu.com/by-release/extracted/ubuntu/g/gnome-volume-manager/2.17.0-2ubuntu2/02_honour_automount_enabled_hint.patch)
md5sums=('104cec26e721e0bba69debd392367195'
'534b8b9633148bd975b2b9b518c41fb4'
'cb45810b2adb95d39e1272470f10a21a'
'7288a9dc57df321d6a379c9b6a7caaff')
build() {
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
patch -Np0 -i ${startdir}/src/gvm-mount-async.patch || return 1
patch -Np0 -i ${startdir}/src/gvm-check-local.patch || return 1
patch -Np1 -i ${startdir}/src/02_honour_automount_enabled_hint.patch || return 1
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var
make || return 1
make GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1 DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install
mkdir -p ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/gconf/schemas
gconf-merge-schema ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas ${startdir}/pkg/etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas
rm -f ${startdir}/pkg/etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas
Also, this is my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi
<match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
<match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
If you compare that to my first version, you'll note that it is *not* enclosed in <deviceinfo> and <device> tags, simply because that wouldn't work. Don't ask me why. i'm by no means a HAL expert...
Last edited by pelle.k (2008-02-04 20:12:00)

No sound volume controller in Satellite L750 Series

I just bought a new Satellite L750-A057 laptop, and found a very stupid design issue that it is has no volume controller ! ONLY WINDOWS one, so If I'm in a middle of any full screen application, I must exit or switch to desktop to lower the volume !! and same for any other situation !!
So, any recommendation about how could I control the sound volume with function keys for example ?

It seems you are right. There is no additional volume controller which would allow to set the sound volume up and down
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Thats shame :(

Firewire and gnome-volume-manager

I have a firewire scanner, when hotplugged, nothing happens in gnome. I have 'run when scanner is plugged' checked, but I get nothing.
Does gnome-volume-manager work with firewire devices? or is it just my scanner? (Canon 2540 photo)

I don't know about scanners, but my firefire external HD is recognised perfectly by gnome-volume-manager. So it does listen for firewire devices. Maybe you'll need to add something to udev to make gnome-volume-manager know it's a scanner?
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Dbus/hal/gnome-volume-manager problem

I've got hal and dbus running but it doesnt even seem that gnome-volume-manager is started. I added it to my gnome session but that didnt seem to do the trick. I'm trying to be able to just plug in my usb key and ipod and have them automount. It works if I restart hal or run gnome-volume-manager from the command line but then work work again unless I restart that stuff again. Here is a cut from my fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod auto user,noauto 0 0

Hi lhoerste,
I had this problem with automount as well. The way I fixed it was adding
dbus hal to daemons line in /etc/rc.conf. You probably did this already.
Next, when you are in the gnome desktop, stick in a cd. Nothing happens right?
Now go to preferences=>removable drives and media (I think this is what it is called. I'm not sitting infront of my computer at the moment). Then make sure that the checkboxes pertaining to "mount automatically" are checked.
Close window.
Now your cd should automount and appear on the desktop. Eject the cd by right clicking on the icon and choosing eject.
Now, restart and ***make sure you save settings*** before leaving.
Get back into the gnome desktop and plug your cd back in. It should automount now.
This is how I got automount to work for me.

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I have been trying everywhere to get hold of a remote/volume controller for a G500/G550W.
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What is Volume controller ?

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do u mean the volume limiter. if that wat you meant you can use it to limit how loud your music plays on your ipod. that the basic idea with it and if you got kids you can use it to limit how loud they play thier ipod and also use a combination to lock it so the settings cant be changed unless they know the combination

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Heya,
I just installed dbus, hall from cvs and gnome-volume-manager from tarball and have some suggestions:
dbus:
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To disbale qt-bindings add:
--disable-qt
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hal:
could you add the option "--enable-fstab-sync" to configure in the new versions? It seems to be usefull . It can be it wasn't available earlier ...
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I just upgraded to 0.9.9 If anyone wants to have the binary just tell me where to upload.
greetz,
Michel

Michel wrote:
Heya,
I just installed dbus, hall from cvs and gnome-volume-manager from tarball and have some suggestions:
dbus:
the default during configure seems to be to detect if you have the necessary things installed and based on that enable a component.
To disbale qt-bindings add:
--disable-qt
to configure, else it will try to compile the qt-bindings and without a libGL.la it won't work ... (and this isn't in the Mesa package or wasn't anyway as far as I can tell).
there are solutions on this forum to fix the libGL.la. this file will be included with future builds of xorg/xfree86. NVIDIA drivers should also provide this file. this file is only an issue for building.
file a bug report feature report to add this build option to the package
hal:
could you add the option "--enable-fstab-sync" to configure in the new versions? It seems to be usefull . It can be it wasn't available earlier ...
if this package is in one of the three official repos file a feature request.
gnome-volume-manager:
I just upgraded to 0.9.9 If anyone wants to have the binary just tell me where to upload.
if a package has just fallen out of date up to about two week leave time for the maintainer to upgrade it . you can flage the package out of date via the web page. this is way better than offering it to people or uploading it somewhere.
the flag otu of date feature is always a better option to cluttering the list with update requests and the bug tracker is the best way to convey your wanted build changes. alot of the developers do not frequent this forum but all are member of the bug tracker notification system.

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Hi.
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thanks!

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