Xfce4 mixer problem
Then i click on Sound Mixer button in Settings window, mixer dont start and settings window crash(or close). If i run xfce4-mixer from console, all windows and panels blinking 2 times and mixer appearing. Please help me, what happens?
PS: Sorry for bad english
Net@Worm wrote:
In vc1 only one line, repeated many times:
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
Gtk up to date by pacman -Syu.
Ah shoot. I get that same "message" over and over again too, but it's not related to your problem. I think that's just a GTK widget problem with the panel, trying to resize and fit some stuff I guess. That constant "message" is, however, interfering with seeing what's crashing, since it's scrolling off that VC. I don't know where else xfce4 pipes it's errors to.
I'll check through the source a bit and see if I can help you out.
You could try this for capturing the VC/1 output: "startxfce4 &> /tmp/xfce4.log"
Start up xfce that way, open up a terminal in xfce and use "tail -f /tmp/xfce4.log" (hit ctrl-c to cancel the "tail" process at any time). Try to repeat those steps which give you an error with the settings menu, and watch what reads out in your terminal. If for some reason it crashes, open up that file later and look at the last few lines in the file before it crashed. You'll probably have to scroll down a bit since it will probably pipe all your xinit stuff in there too.
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i am having this problem a couple of days now and i couldnt find something usefull in wiki
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Plugin "Mixer" unexpectedly left the panel, do you want to restart it?
User is member of audio group in case it matters...
I have no clue if this is a matter of groups, permissions or package
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Alsamixer
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alsa: * Center,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * LFE,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Side,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Line,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * CD,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic,0 <--- hint hint
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alsa: error: master control not found. I even tried to guess wildly, but to no avail.
alsa: info: developer information follows: (send E-Mail to Developer with that)
alsa: * Headphone,0
alsa: * Front,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic Boost,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Surround,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Center,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * LFE,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Side,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Line,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * CD,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic Boost,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * IEC958,0
alsa: * PC Speaker,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Capture,0
alsa: * Capture,1
alsa: * Channel Mode,0
alsa: * Input Source,0
alsa: * Input Source,1
alsa: info: end of developer information
alsa: error: master control not found. I even tried to guess wildly, but to no avail.
alsa: info: developer information follows: (send E-Mail to Developer with that)
alsa: * Headphone,0
alsa: * Front,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Front Mic Boost,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Surround,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Center,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * LFE,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Side,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Line,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * CD,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Mic Boost,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * IEC958,0
alsa: * PC Speaker,0 <--- hint hint
alsa: * Capture,0
alsa: * Capture,1
alsa: * Channel Mode,0
alsa: * Input Source,0
alsa: * Input Source,1
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The solution I found was very ugly, but it worked: I installed gnome-alsamixer, made all necessary settings and then closed it. Now xfce4-mixer can detect the soundcard fine- quite obviously using the gnome-alsamixer config.
PS: On one instance of it I can also get the mixer settings by logging X as root (NOT running "sudo xfce4-mixer" - for some reason it doesn't work), setting everything up and running "alsactl store" and the logging back as normal user. Obviously it's a permissions issue, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to find out what's happening.
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Hey guys,
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