Gnome volume control applet supports OSS mixer only?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Aug 2 18:49:28 BST 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 16:37 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 06:31 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:49:07 -0400
> > Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I normally don't use the Gnome mixer applet, but I tried adding it to
> > > the panel today to find that it now only supports the "OSS Mixer", and I
> > > only get a playback tab, no capture.  This is not very useful and seems
> > > to be a regression.
> > > 
> > > This used to work.  Is it a known bug?  I have verified that the ALSA
> > > mixer interface is working by running alsamixer.
> > 
> > Have a look under Edit-Preferences and File- Change Device in the dialogue
> > that pops up when you double-click the panel applet icon.
> > 
> > You can tick a whole bunch of extra options...
> 
> Already tried, does not work.  The only device listed under "File ->
> Change Device" is "Sigmatel STAC9721,23 (OSS Mixer)".  I used to have a
> choice of ALSA Mixer and OSS mixer and ALSA was the default.

Can anyone reproduce this?  Should I just file a bug report?

Lee




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