Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[L18L]

[disciple]

You might want to take that suggestion somewhere else where it is more likely to be seen... 
But I would have thought someone would naturally look in the retrovol settings if volume control wasn't working, not in some wizard. So the main thing would be getting retrovol not to crash.

[L18L]

[Pizzasgood]

Hi, long time no type

I just uploaded a new version. I think I fixed all of the issues that have been brought up. Summary:

• Three options for volume scaling - linear, logarithmic, exponential
  
• Auto-mute when set to 0%, can be optionally disabled
  
• Does not use the muted icon unless actually muted (note to themers: added a fifth icon for 0% but unmuted: audio-volume-none.png)
  
• No longer crashes if the soundcard is missing or misconfigured
  
• Now updates tray slider every second just like main-window sliders
  
• No more level resetting if you change the volume and then scroll on the tray icon
  
• No more getting stuck at 0% and 100%
  
• Now using own git repository at GitHub
  

NOTE: As I speak neither German nor French, the bundled localization files have not been updated with translations for the new strings that have been added. If/when somebody posts updated files, I'll release a version 0.13.1 with them included (assuming I haven't made enough changes in the meanwhile to warrant jumping to 0.14; I don't have anything planned though).

I also didn't bother to build a separate package for 4.x. The package I uploaded was built on Precise Puppy (a version or two behind the latest, if it matters). If people need it compiled for something different, well, they are more than welcome to grab the source package and see to it If ./configure complains about aclocal-1.13 being missing, you can probably get things working happily by simply running autoreconf --force and then trying again. Puppy Precise used 1.11, but my Arch Linux install uses 1.13 and it bitches at me if I leave it set for 1.11. So.

If there are any issues, let me know. Or use the issue tracker on the GitHub repository.

Would-be issue posters: Please remember that if you are having issues using retrovol, try using alsamixer. If it doesn't work with alsamixer either, then it isn't an issue with retrovol, but rather your overall audio configuration.

[Karl Godt]

[Henry]

Welcome back!

I had removed Retrovol months back and have been using Alsamixergui. (Basically the same as alsamixer, no tray slider)

Tried the new retrovol-0.13. Package manager says "Error, retrovol-0.13 failed to install."

I uninstalled Alsamixergui and tried again. Same.

Just reporting. Maybe I have an odd PreciseNop-5.4.3.
EDIT: Apparently not. I tried it on Precise Puppy 5.5.92, pfix=ram, with the same result.

[Karl Godt]

The precompiled v0.13 .pet installed with no problems on a dpup by iguleder from 2010 with glibc-2.11.2 .

Will have tho check gtk and pango for

[Henry]

Just thought I'd add this to the discussion.This is how I've been doing it in PreciseNop-5.4.3 (and at least some others.)
1.Remove retrovol if present (package mgr, built-in files.)
2. Install absvolume_puppy-0.8.pet This is the one that works. Yes, it's old.
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/sunsite.unc.edu/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/absvolume_puppy-0.8.pet
3. Comment out the exe line in defaultaudiomixerr.
4. Open alsamixer in terminal. Adjust as in photo. The tray slider operates the master. (The xfce lower panel in the photo is autohidden, works also with jwm.)

Note: the curve and the mute point are correct. It's simple, small (10k), and just what I want.

[Henry]

Pizzasgood et al:

As noted above, the the new version 13 in the first post gave this: "Error, package retrovol-0.13 failed to install."

Now, I happened to see on Barry's blog2 that he has compiled it in Wary and in Ubuntu Lucid on the Mele 1000 (37K, 37K):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-common/retrovol-0.13-i486.pet

This one works. It's also smaller. Also, how does one get to the options you mentioned?

I have both Barry's new retrovol and my new absvolume control running in the same taskbar. It seems Barry is using the preferable logarithmic curve also. They are both well behaved and each slider updates the other. Win - win

Forgot to mention that defaultaudiomixer needs to set for retrovol for self starting of course, if that's your choice.

Henry

[Pizzasgood]

[Henry]

Thanks,

To recap: those interested should wait till your 13.1 appears in the first post.

or they can use Barrry's compilation from

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-common/retrovol-0.13-i486.pet

which works well now for me.

[ASRI éducation]

[Pizzasgood]

0.13.1 is up. It doesn't exactly handle stopped alsa ideally (if you have it running from a terminal, you'll see a new error message each time it tries accessing the card, which is very spammy), but it didn't outright die when I tested. It might even theoretically be able to resume working when you bring alsa back up, but I was unable to successfully revive alsa without rebooting, so I couldn't verify that.

This one has a couple more strings available to be translated as well, due to rectifying a couple oversights from the last build.

The Exponential mode should work sensibly in this version. Or to be more specific, it should correctly be the opposite behavior of the Logarithmic scale. Whether those two settings are sensible is another story

I think that they might be too non-linear, so I'm considering adding a variable to control that. Tempted to add a little graph widget to show how it impacts the response curve too.

[Henry]

Good morning,

Retrovol 0.13.1 works well here.

[Pelo]

never the capture volume is set up.
I know that.
Is there a reason why the capture volume is not raised ?