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starhawk · Posted: Fri 22 Mar 2013, 18:39 Post_subject:

Requesting another tray app -- one for volume. alsamixer works -- but I've still got one mute puppy here...

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 634

technosaurus: gtkdialog1 can be swallowed by jwm so guess its more or less a question if we can make dynamic changing pixmaps or text to do it.

starhawk: So alsamixer works but does not give you sound or what?

Found an alternative xload-monitor (hot-babe-0.2.2-gtk1+2pets) and did a quick backport to gtk1 to a working state. Thought I better bury it here and not in the "Additional Software"-section...But the coding principle is interesting and could be used with other images - and it is more fun as-is than xload during a kernel-compile... Patch2gtk1 attached.

starhawk · Posted: Sun 24 Mar 2013, 15:16 Post_subject:

That's correct -- I can play CDs because that's handled 99% by the CD drive -- it just pipes audio to the computer and the computer dumps it to the speakers. I think.

But any sort of internal playback -- mp3 or wav -- doesn't happen. minimp3 and mpg123 both claim to be playing, but I get no sound whatsoever.

IIRC in mainline Puppies and most Puplets -- there are TWO volume controls. One is ALSA. The other is the volume tray app that doesn't exist in pUPnGO.

I suspect that in my case, the lack of a volume tray app may be causing problems. (I also want to say that I remember mucking around with either original pUPnGO or a very early pUPnGO2012 where we got the volume tray app put in, and suddenly I was able to fix the issue... but I can't remember for sure.)

Perhaps there's a way to simply pull that app from p412 and stuff it into pUPnGO2012? I mean, the pUPnGO2012+ version I'm working with started off at 116mb, so I'm not nearly as concerned about size as you are Wink

Speed and size usually go hand-in-hand but I doubt I'd find another Puppy that's nearly this responsive on this system at this size. Heck, Puplite5 is ~79mb and it is nearly painful to use.

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 634

Did you try this? Uses same functions as absvolume. What soundcard do you have?

starhawk · Posted: Sun 24 Mar 2013, 15:52 Post_subject:

Hadn't tried pmvol. I'll check it out shortly.

The CPi D***XT models use the Crystal 4237B ISA-based card. Driver is snd-cs4236.ko.

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 634

If you look in /sys/bus/isa/devices - is it mentioned there?
You might want to run alsaconf - it has the possibility to probe non-pnp ISA-cards - cant test if it works but it tries...
Take alsaconf, alsactl, amixer and aplay from P412 and try to run alsaconf. It needs bash and dialog and maybe some additional libraries. I do have a static cut-down version but its too big to post here and as said above I cant test if it really works.

starhawk · Posted: Sun 24 Mar 2013, 16:40 Post_subject:

Had to install a GTK-1.2 pet to make it work. No probs there, but...

starhawk · Posted: Sun 24 Mar 2013, 17:01 Post_subject:

A (very) small contribution of my own -- icons for SNS-Retro Wink

Two icons, one 24px and the other 48px.

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 634

Nice...
Here is a static pmvol which works in pupngo2012 (here...)

starhawk · Posted: Sun 24 Mar 2013, 18:16 Post_subject:

I think there's something wrong with that driver, or with ALSAmixer. I'm really not sure what's going on -- the ALSA settings aren't persistent between boots, and even when I jack the volume all the way up with pmvol, having maxed out nearly every setting in ALSAmixer, it still doesn't play MP3s.

Very strange.

Maybe the driver's not quite an exact match?

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3845

if you need to test your sound try

cat ....bark.wav >/dev/dsp
or
cat ...bark.au >/dev/audio

(path is in /usr/share/...? audio or sound or something)

then you can tell if it is mixer problem

I posted one called mmix to the old pupngo thread a long time ago - it is extremely light and works with oss vs. alsa ... worth a try if you may have an old oss only card

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3845

starhawk · Posted: Sun 24 Mar 2013, 23:05 Post_subject:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3845

the .wav to /dev/dsp didn't though?

I also wanted to point this out:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834760001
($40 netbook)

I ordered one myself and it seems like the perfect little testbox for an arm'ngo experiment. Craig has a zip file with the "firmware" inside as raw files with shell scripts, so it is straight forward to figure out what modules are needed and how to install it to disk ... though the uboot configuration may need further study as it is significantly different from grub, lilo, syslinux and isolinux