Fixing Retrovol to work with external sound cards
Posted: Tue 29 Oct 2013, 19:18
I was going to reply to the thread Fix your soundcard problems by uninstalling Retrovol thread, but it's been locked.
Anyways, if anyone is trying to use an external sound card as default (disabling the internal audio) and there is no retrovol mixer, or it has disappeared, I discovered that you have to make a text file with the following code in it:
Then it needs to be saved as .retrovolrc and dropped into root.
Give X a restart and hopefully retrovol should be on the taskbar.
This, in combination with etc/ modprobe/ alsa conf and adding things like
options snd-usb-audio index=0 will make an external card the default card.
It's like trying to start an engine with wet spark plugs sometimes!
Anyways, if anyone is trying to use an external sound card as default (disabling the internal audio) and there is no retrovol mixer, or it has disappeared, I discovered that you have to make a text file with the following code in it:
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Config file for retrovol
# This file should reside in the user's home directory and be named .retrovolrc
# Which soundcard to use
#card=hw:0
# Set this to 1 to make the sliders vertical, or 0 for horizontal (only applies to the main window)
#vertical=0
# Window position
#window_x=-1
window_x=583
#window_y=-1
window_y=284
# Window dimensions
#window_width=270
#window_height=256
# Slider dimensions
#slider_width=102
#slider_height=20
#slider_margin=2
#seg_thickness=2
#seg_spacing=1
# Slider colorscheme
#background_color=#000000
#border_color=#000000
#unlit_color=#993300
#lit_color=#FFCC00
# Enable the tray_icon
#enable_tray_icon=1
# Enable the tray_menu
#enable_tray_menu=1
# Background color of tray_icon (default is default GTK background color). Note: the commandline -bg option overrides this
#tray_icon_background_color=#CCCCCC
# Set this to 1 to make the slider on the tray_icon vertical, or 0 for horizontal
#tray_slider_vertical=1
# Tray slider dimensions
#tray_slider_width=20
#tray_slider_height=102
#tray_slider_offset=-1
# Which slider to link with the tray_icon, identified by numid
#tray_control=37
tray_control=2
# The numids of the sliders to display, in order. It is okay to have comments
# after the numbers as long as the numbers are the first non-whitespace
# characters. To get a list of the slider numids, run this command:
# amixer controls
# NOTE: This section must go at the end of the file!
#EXAMPLE:
#sliders:
# 37 #Master Playback Volume
# 15 #Front Playback Volume
# 3 #Surround Playback Volume
sliders:
Give X a restart and hopefully retrovol should be on the taskbar.
This, in combination with etc/ modprobe/ alsa conf and adding things like
options snd-usb-audio index=0 will make an external card the default card.
It's like trying to start an engine with wet spark plugs sometimes!