Package: tvtime Version: 1.0.2-6 Severity: minor tvtime generates this message:
mixer: Can't open device /dev/mixer, mixer volume and mute unavailable. I have very recently upgraded from lenny to squeeze and made no hardware changes. However, that message was not generated by the previous version of tvtime in the lenny sound environment (with backported KDE4.2 if that makes a difference) so I thought I should mention this extra message in this bug report with minor severity classification. I checked, and /dev/mixer is indeed not available on my Debian squeeze system with alsa. Audio works well for tvtime and all other sound apps I have tried. I cannot find anything within the tvtime GUI that would allow me to change the volume (I have looked in the menus you can find with the right click of the mouse), but kmixer works fine for that, and tvtime's middle mouse button also works fine to mute the sound contrary to the message. So I suspect the message is a leftover from previous Linux sound systems and needs to be removed or adjusted to be consistent with modern Linux sound systems. For what it is worth, I am using an analog cable to connect the audio output of my wintv-go card to line-in of the sound card. (I guess it might be possible to configure the sound from my wintv-go card so that it was directly and digitally accessible to the kernel and therefore tvtime, but I have never found a way to do that and the analog connection worked fine for Lenny and also appears to work fine for Squeeze.) I suppose I could also write another formal bug report about a volume control being missing in tvtime, but I am reasonably satisfied with kmix to handle the overall volume so I will only mention that issue in passing here. Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages tvtime depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-6 GCC support library ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxtst6 2:1.1.0-3 X11 Testing -- Record extension li ii libxv1 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Video extension library ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.0-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l ii perl-modules 5.10.1-13 Core Perl modules ii ttf-freefont 20090104-7 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True ii ucf 3.0025 Update Configuration File: preserv ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages tvtime recommends: ii xmltv-util 0.5.57-3 Utilities related to the XMLTV fil Versions of packages tvtime suggests: pn lirc-x <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: tvtime/vbidevice: /dev/vbi0 * tvtime/norm: NTSC tvtime/setuid: false tvtime/processpriority: -10 tvtime/v4ldevice: /dev/video0 tvtime/frequencies-pal: * tvtime/frequencies-ntsc: Cable tvtime/frequencies-jp: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
