[Gnome22-user] GNOME 2.2 Volume Control 2.2.2 Forgets Settings

[Michael G. Morey]

James Strandboge wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 12:08, Michael G. Morey wrote:
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>
>>All,
>>
>>I find the GNOME 2.2 Volume Control 2.2.2 to be confusing.  I don't 
>>understand the need for two PCM sliders ("pcm" and "pcm2").  Also, the 
>>help page (Help->Help) appears to describe a slightly different applet.  
>>My volume control has no provision to allow for the saving of volume 
>>settings, for example, as the help page would have me believe.  Each 
>>time I start up GNOME, the "pcm" and "pcm2" sliders are at minimum 
>>settings.  There appears to be no way to get the volume control to 
>>remember the volumes I set, and so I'm forced to go back and set them 
>>each time I start GNOME.  It's quite annoying.  I've checked, and the 
>>alsamixer program does save settings between reboots, and so that is not 
>>the problem.
>>    
>>
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>The pcm sliders are just what your card is reporting if I am not
>mistaken.  I believe that the volume control needs the OSS compatible
>alsa modules loaded, eg:
>
>snd-pcm-oss
>snd-mixer-oss
>
>Perhaps these modules are not loaded before you enter gnome?  I can say
>that I use alsa, and the volume control works here.  Have you check
>bugzilla.gnome.org?
>
>Jamie
>
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Jamie,

I stand corrected.  The sliders are as ALSA presents them.  I've found 
that installing hotplug enables the correct saving and restoring of 
volume settings.  I'm not sure why this is so.  I do see quite a few 
"already loaded" messages at boot time now, mostly for USB devices, such as:

usbcore already loaded
usbcore already loaded
usbcore already loaded

etc.

This also is a mystery to my.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Michael

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