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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

Hey Eric,

Is this happening every time you start xmms, or only when start xmms after a
fresh start of X, or starting xmms after a fresh reboot?

My guess is that the mixer is being reset to quiet after/during one of the
situations above.  If you're in a desktop environment like KDE, you may want
to set a good default mixer setup in kde's mixer and set KDE's mixer to
"Save Current Volumes as Default".  That, at least, would setup the volumes
properly when X/KDE is started.

There's also the alsa tools which will allow you to save an alsa settings
file for mixer volumes the way you like, and this would automatically
restore the mixer settings next time /etc/init.d/alsa(sound?) is started.

I recently pulled alsa off my systems because of certain versions compile
issues were driving me nuts, which is why I'm a little sketchy on the
alsa-specific details at the moment.  =)

Anyhoo, hope something there helps.


On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:25:37 -0800 (PST)
"Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:

> Eric Sandall said:
> >
> > Speaking of music... ;)  Whenever I start xmms, I have to open it's
> > preferences (CTRL+P), Audio I/O Plugins, COnfigure (OSS), and change the
> > Mixer from whatever it is to the opposite (doesn't matter if I have it
> > checked or not, but inverting the selection and pressing okay always
> > fixes it, so one day I'm playing music with "Volume controls Master not
> > PCM", and the next (after reloading xmms) I have that off).
> >
> > This happens on two (Athlon with SBLive! and a P3 with ES1781?) of my
> > three (PII with CS4231).
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> > -One of Four
> > a.k.a. sandalle
> 
> BTW, these are all using the ALSA drivers (not OSS, but XMMS only has OSS
> audio I/O plugin, not ALSA), some of them the latest (rc8?), the rest rc6,
> IIRC.
> 
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
> 
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