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newsRetrovol replaced with Aumix and Pnmixer
Retrovol is a combination audio mixer and tray applet. It has been working fine for me, until today.
Now that I am using a Radeon HD 6780 video card, suddenly Retrovol is
broken. The icon is sometimes in the tray, sometimes not. When not
displaying anything, there is still a space that responds to clicks.
Sometimes though, it dies completely. Even though it may respond to
clicks, the volume slider does not work.
A quick search on the Puppy Forum reveals that I am not alone;
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=97258
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=110613
What these people have not identified, is what video card they are
using. Given that I have been using retrovol for years on different PCs
and laptops without any problem, always Intel video, and suddenly broken
when I have changed to a AMD card, well, it is too much of a
coincidence.
So, Easy and Quirky have changed over to 'aumix' and 'pnmixer'. The former is a audio mixer, the latter a tray applet.
Which reminds me, my build of Quirky for the RPi had the same problem, retrovol was broken, and I used aumix and pnmixer.