Comment 6 for bug 637339

As mentioned, I have also discovered that the GUI mixer was calling the
show. Without a /dev/mixer to
work with, neither gnomeradio or kradio's sound volume controls work at all.
But you can control the volume
from the mixer utility. If you want to turn the radio down and listen to
something else, well, kill the radio
program. And make sure it does a mute on exit.

I've tried to do the modprobe, but I get

FATAL: Module snd_mixer_oss not found.

I put in the dashes as you described. I searched the system for
snd-mixer-oss,
but the only ones I find were from older kernel versions (2.6.27-7,
2.6.28-11,
2.6.32-24). I do "apt-cache search snd-mixer-oss", and no go. Can you
look up what package those .ko files are in? I've tried a few, but no luck,
ie. oss4-base linux-sound-base (already loaded), not even in
linux-backports-modules-alsa-2.6.35-22...

A ray of hope shines in a dark and dreary wilderness!

murf

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:52 AM, ... <email address hidden> wrote:

> hah ... and, for recording
>
> modprobe snd-pcm-oss
>
> is needed, else there will be an error when pressing record-button. to
> solve this permamently
>
> echo snd-mixer-oss > /etc/modules
>
> should be typed. hpefully this is all ...
>
> --
> After upgrading to Ub 10.10, no /dev/mixer!
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637339
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnomeradio” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnomeradio
>
> To me, the sound system in Ubuntu is only half-functional. Now, under Ub
> 10.10, it's worse.
>
> In the last number of upgrades, "play sound.wav" would work about 1/2 the
> time, usually pretty arithmetically every-other-time. When no sound was
> generated, the sox player would act like it was playing. When it does play,
> it is often a bit scratchy.
>
> Gnomeradio has been working in 10.04, and the 8's and the 9's. Now, now
> without /dev/mixer, it doesn't push out any sound. Previous to the upgrade,
> gnomeradio played flawlessly, and belted out sound even when sox is just
> getting it out 1/2 the time.
>
> After I click out of the "Could not open "/dev/mixer"! alert, gnomeradio
> proceeds to operate as normal. The signal strength indication seems to work
> properly for detected radio stations, etc. It's just without the link to the
> sound card, I won't hear it.
>
> I looked in /dev for mixer, nothing. I tried Kradio, and it scanned for,
> and found, several channels. The card and its drivers seem to working OK.
>
> Any advise you might have will be appreciated. I'm sure I'm not the only
> guy with this problem.
>
> murf
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: gnomeradio 1.8-1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Sep 12 17:27:36 2010
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnomeradio
>
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