Re: freevo remote volume does not work

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 17:13 +0100, Andreas Dick wrote:
> hei
> I have the same problem as Dana.
> 
> In my case the mixer plugin is not able to start, since /dev/mixer do not 
> exist on my raw Ubuntu 10.10 / Freevo 1.9.0 setup (oss-compat is not 
> installed, I hope it is not necessary in 2011?).
> And the alsamixer/alsamixer2 plugins do not work as well:
> ---------------------------------
> failed to load plugin alsamixer
> start 'freevo plugins -l' to get a list of plugins
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/plugin.py", line 571, in __load_plugin__
>     p = eval(object)()
>   File "/usr/share/pyshared/freevo/plugins/alsamixer.py", line 77, in __init__
>     self.main_mixer = alsaaudio.Mixer(config.ALSA_MIXER_NAME, 0, 
> config.ALSA_CARDID)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ALSA_MIXER_NAME'
> ---------------------------------
> defining ALSA_MIXER_NAME in the config do not help at all, thus I supposet that 
> the plugins are corrupt...?
> 
> what is now the best way? the way with oss (really???) or fixing the plugins? 
> what are others using?
> Andreas
This should be resolved in 1.9.2, just out of interest what did you set
ALSA_MIXER_NAME to?

Cheers

Adam


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