kalsamix

I have "ticked" the two options "Save levels on exit" and "Mid button on systray toggles mute", but neither of these seem to do anything. When I exit, I presume that my settings should be saved in asound.state, and I do not know what the "mid button" refers to. Can someone enlighten me?

Thanks

Hi.

kalsamix stores and loads volumes in its own configuration file, not in any ALSA-wide config file.

About the option, I've clarified it in beta 2, which is about to be released.

Bye.

I looked in the kalsamixrc files and could not find any levels saved there, even though I have save and load set as true. I ask because my third sound device occasionally loads with random settings which means I have to check it every time I use it.

Weird. Can you send me your kalsamixrc?

Hello,

very nice application. I compiled from the sources of the debian package for etch, no compilation error and the mixer is working. The VU-Meter however shows nothing. Does it only work for apps playing through arts?
An alsa-only solution would be to simply capture sound to drive the vu-meter. With the dsnooper-plugin on alsa level, this would not disturb recording apps and one could simply monitor the "Mix"-Capture device that most soundcards have. Would be very nice to have!

Another small bug: If the font for the mixer names is changed, kalsamix always selects a bold face, even when I select a regular one.

Regards
Heiner

Hi.

About the vu-meter, I've found a method to do it, but I don't like it very much because it must use an external ALSA plugin (.so) and a asoundrc modification. Will study further.

About the little bug, fixed in beta2 (about to be released).

Certainly a lot easier to change the volume of all my speakers with this than with Kmix :)

Just a question...is it possible to get rid of the splash-screen?

Sure, I'll add this in next round.

Anyone that has packaged it? I found package for debian but it didn't work in ubuntu.

thanx

I've created a simple rpm for fedora, you are welcome to the rpm/src.rpm if you want to get it working on Ubuntu. The spec file is below, there are no guarantees that this will be OK for Ubuntu.

Cheers GZU.

Distribution: Fedora 7
Packager: George Seaton <george.seaton@inbox.com>

Summary: An ALSA mixer for KDE
Name: kalsamix
Version: 1.0.0beta2
Release: 1
License: GNU/GPL
URL: http://kalsamix.sourceforge.net
Group: Sound
Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
Source1: kalsamix.desktop
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot
BuildRequires: arts-devel
BuildRequires: kdelibs-devel
BuildRequires: alsa-lib-devel
Obsoletes: kamix
Conflicts: kamix

%description
A KDE mixer application for KDE 3 and ALSA, just to provide
some support for what official kmix lacks.
kalsamix is the renamed version of kamix

%prep
%setup -n %{name}-%{version}


%build
./configure
make

%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -exec /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'

%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
/usr/bin/kalsamix
/usr/share/applnk/Utilities/kalsamix.desktop

/usr/share/apps/kalsamix/kalsamix_splash.png
/usr/share/apps/kalsamix/kalsamixui.rc
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kamix/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kamix/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kamix/index.docbook

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kalsamix.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kalsamix_muted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/green_off.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/green_on.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/partial.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/red_off.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/red_on.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/yellow_off.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/yellow_on.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kalsamix.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kalsamix_muted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/kalsamix.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/kalsamix_muted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kalsamix.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kalsamix_muted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kalsamix.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kalsamix_muted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/kalsamix.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/kalsamix_muted.png
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kalsamix.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/kalsamix.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/kalsamix.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/kalsamix.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kalsamix.mo


%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%changelog
* Wed Jul 11 2007 George Seaton 1.0.0beta2-1
* Mon Jun 04 2007 Karsten Brockmann <arcam@ccux-linux.de> 1.0.0beta1-1
- Initial Release

When compiling kalsamix-1.0.0beta2 I have the following error:

/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -o kalsamix kalsamix.all_cpp.o -lartskde -lasound -lasound
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lartskde
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

try this:
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/kde/lib make

thnx, it helped a bit, but now it fails to find laudio:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -laudio

how to make it to work in 5.1 surround sound?