Hello! I have a Terratec 5.1 USB MKII soundcard which seems to be very well supported by ALSA. But I can't get the volume control to work. I can control the volume in alsamixer with the slider to the right, but I can't in xmms and mplayer. I think it is because there are two sliders with the same name. See http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/sebastian.kemper/amixer_1.png and http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/sebastian.kemper/amixer_2.png In xmms I can choose "Speaker", but everytime I choose the second one it doesn't care, see http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/sebastian.kemper/xmms_alsa_setup.png Normally when you change the volume in xmms you can watch a slider in alsamixer go up or down, but this doesn't happen on my computer. Can you guys fix this? Thank you! Sebastian Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 8 2005, 12:06:24)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/video/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X alsa crypt cups dvb dvd dvdr foomaticdb gnome gtk gtk2 ithreads jpeg mad mmx mmx2 ncurses nls nodrm nomotif oggvorbis png ppds readline rtc spell sse ssl truetype truetype-fonts userlocales x86 xml2 xv zlib linguas_de" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I dunno about mplayer, but in the alsa-plugin configuration in xmms you can configure which mixer is used as the main one. You could try changing it between master/pcm/whatever and see if that helps. Or does your card's master mixer start off muted? If so, (as above) you probably want to un-mute it, add /etc/init.d/alsasound (in the alsa-utils package) to the default runlevel, and then run "alsactl -f /etc/asound.state store" to save your current mixer levels as the default. Hope this helps - if not, good luck. :)
:) No, that's not the problem. The card works, I can plug in say my headphones and change the volume in alsamixer. But I can't directly in xmms and the like. As you prolly saw in the picture, I can choose between "Mic" and 2x "Speaker". Not one of them has any effect. Sebastian
http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/sebastian.kemper/amixer
Thanks to my own stupidity. Should have just entered a different mixer device Speaker,1. Sorry
