With beta5, I get: Warning: this version of the Gnome Volume Control was compiled with OSS version 3.8.2, and your system is running version 16502.188.158. when running gnome-volume-control I don't recall seeing this in beta4 or previous....
Still there? Looks like some kind of silly number-parsing bug or something.
I don't have a severn box handy, but on a fully up2date RHL 9 I get: [cricker@yoshimi mp3s]$ gnome-volume-control Warning: This version of the Gnome Volume Control was compiled with OSS version 3.8.2, and your system is running version 19896.236.158.
From the strace, it looks like it's trying to grovel /dev/{,sound/}mixer1, which doesn't exist. First it pokes /dev/mixer for some info: 13281 open("/dev/mixer", O_RDWR) = 16 13281 ioctl(16, OSS_GETVERSION, 0xbfffe0bc) = 0 13281 ioctl(16, SOUND_OLD_MIXER_INFO, 0x805a1bc) = 0 then it pokes mixer1, fails, and warns 13281 open("/dev/mixer1", O_RDWR) = -1 ENODEV (No such device) 13281 open("/dev/mixer1", O_RDWR) = -1 ENODEV (No such device) 13281 open("/dev/sound/mixer1", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 13281 ioctl(-1, OSS_GETVERSION, 0xbfffe0bc) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) 13281 write(2, "Warning: This version of the Gno"..., 137) = 137 13281 ioctl(-1, SOUND_OLD_MIXER_INFO, 0x8086f54) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) That's with gnome-media-2.2.1.1-4
Ugh, looks like pretty dorky code. Should be easy to fix though, just handle that error properly.
Looks fine to me now, closing.