Volume Control

[jsalpha2]

Just installed the Salix Xfce version and can't seem to find the correct volume control. The one that looks like a speaker with sound coming out of it. I can find one that looks like a knob, but it opens a mixer box. The one I want just has the slider bar so that you can quickly turn up or down the sound. My other sound problem is that even with the volume turned up all the way, it is not very loud. I had tried Salix before and don't remember having these problems. Thanks.

[gapan]

You have to select the right channel in the applet's preferences. For some sound cards that is the Master channel, which is also the default I think. For others it is the PCM channel.

[ElderDryas]

But I think what s/he wanted was a panel widget that when you click on it, it immediately displays a dropdown slider that controls the volume. The mixer does control the volume, but it takes more work to set up the desired channel and move the mouse to wherever the mixer display appears when you click on it

[gapan]

But you can turn the volume up/down just by using the mouse scroll wheel on the applett. It can't get an easier than that.

[ElderDryas]

Huh! Did not know that. That does make it easy.

It'd be even easier if it worked on the panel widget, not just the app window (when I tried it, it just crashed)

[jsalpha2]

I think the other part of the problem is that I can only choose between HDA Intel Audio and HDA NVidia Audio. I think there used to be an option for Onboard Analog Audio.
The NVidia selection is the video card and I don't use that. If I set it to HDA Intel I get about 20% volume maxed out. The onboard audio, is realtek. Maybe it is not being detected.

[elcore]

It will only crash if master channel is not selected manually.
You can test this by removing mixer plugin from panel and adding a new one.
By default, it will crash on mouse wheel event, but once you configure mixer track, it will work.

[ElderDryas]

...once you configure mixer track, it will work.

I stand corrected (again), works as advertised