kmix DCOP call return values wrong?

[Christian Esken]

Am Samstag, 19. Februar 2005 18:24 schrieb David Jarvie:
> KAlarm uses KMix to set the master volume when sounds are played with its 
> alarms. But when I use it with KMix from kdemultimedia 3.3.2 (built from 
> source), it doesn't work. I find that the masterVolume() DCOP call to kmix 
> always returns 0, and the setMasterVolume() DCOP call never changes the 
> volume regardless of what value is supplied as a parameter.

This means you have no master volume. 

> What has happened here? And will it work in KDE 3.4? (I haven't installed 
> kdemultimedia for KDE 3.4 yet to test it out.)

My guess is that you changed drivers: from OSS to ALSA or vice versa. If there is no master volume in the driver, it will never work.

   Chris