On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:55:52PM +0100, MList wrote: > In freshly installed lenny form DVD set I am not able to use aumix to > change sound volume. > > When I run the command > $ aumix > screen is cleared and this error is printed: > aumix: error opening mixer: Success > > Same thing happens when running aumix as root. > I am using mplayer to listen mp3 music and then I can change > volume of the sound with '9' and '0' keys. > > Why is aumix failing and how can I fix it? >
Not sure but thanks for the reference; I installed it. Have you read: Debian specific notes for the aumix package =============================================== <snipped> 4. Notes for ALSA users If you also have the Debian ALSA packages installed, the aumix init.d script will detect this and refuse to touch the mixer, as this is handled by the alsactl program and the /etc/init.d/alsa script instead. If you don't wish to use the ALSA stuff, e.g. since you only access ALSA in OSS emulation mode, you can forbid aumix execution at boot/shutdown by editing /etc/defaults/aumix. See the first note in this file for more information. The old aumix-alsa package has been removed as there is no support for it anymore upstream. The aumix package works fine (although with limited channels) with the OSS compatibility layer for ALSA. To enable the compatibility layer, modprobe the snd_mixer_oss module (and/or put it in /etc/modules). Hopefully aumix will have full ALSA support in the future (it is on upstream's TODO list). If you're knowledgeable with ALSA stuff, feel free to contact au...@packages.debian.org to help out. The Debian maintainer works closely with the aumix upstream maintainer. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100306230330.ga7...@europa.office
