Framework 16 - Sound Works but Sound Controls do Not

jgaz

I have a Framework 16 laptop, the AMD Ryzen 7040 series. From the default GhostBSD install I do get sound, but the sound controls were missing from the system tray area in XFCE. Having run into this issue before on Gentoo, I remembered it could sometimes be a missing package issue.

I went looking for the package and installed it:

$ sudo pkg install -y xfce4-mixer-full

That at least let me add the the sound controls to XFCE's system tray. Attempting to actually use the sound mixer results in an error.

GStreamer was unable to detect any sound devices.

This is odd, because I can pull up a YouTube video and get sound just fine, I just can't alter the volume. Any suggestions?

Robin

A search of this site shows this thread which might be helpful. I use Xfce as well and found PulseAudio to be the issue. Simply adding the GUI mixer for PulseAudio might fix it.

jgaz

Robin

That thread didn't help directly, but it did get me looking closer to the right direction. For me, the fix was:

$ sudo pkg install -y xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin

This gets me a sound control widget in the XFCE's system tray area. Thanks for the help.

zephyrus

jgaz
Thank you for posting this fix.
The other day, I reinstalled GhostBSD XFCE and also had to do some tweaks to get sound working. I wrote a tutorial to document the steps I've done.

jgaz

zephyrus

Sure, once I get it working, I'll document all of my steps and post them online; the FreeBSD wiki, maybe?

zephyrus

jgaz
Sounds good. The more documentation, the better. 🙂