Volume control plug-in not controlling PCM

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi all,

I am running XFCE4 under FC1 on a new Dell 5150 laptop that I just got
to replace my older 8200. I have transferred everything over, but am
finding that the panel volume control plug-in does not affect PCM
volume, which is what mplayer and xmms seem to use. 

The plug-in worked fine on the 8200, so I am guessing that I had either
done something under GNOME on the 8200 prior to installing XFCE4 or
there is a hardware change on the 5150 resulting in underlying issues.

There is no functional change relative to setting the plug-in properties
to use or not use the "internal mixer".

The new laptop is based upon a 3.2 GHz P4 with hyperthreading, though
that is turned off due to HT/SMP issues under FC1 with the SMP kernel.
So I am running the UMP kernel.  lspci shows the following for the sound
board:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 01)


I noted some posts to the XFCE forums regarding similar issues from last
fall, suggesting that there might be some fixes in CVS. I am running
XFCE 4.0.3.1 from RPMS, so I am not sure if the discussed changes are or
are not in this version.

If anyone requires more HW information, let me know.

BTW, on an unrelated note, does anyone know of any xfce themes for
KDE/Qt apps?  My new laptop has a DVD+R/RW and I am using k3b for DVD
data burning for backups, which works great. It would be nice if it
would look the same as my other Gtk based apps.  :-)

Thanks!

Marc Schwartz