[haiku-development] Re: USB freeze (and sound)

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:58:08AM +0200, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > One more thing that has me completely baffled, though:
> > *Where* is the Deskbar shelf storage?  I would have thought it would
> > be somewhere in .../config/settings, but I've searched that directory
> > from top to bottom and -- aside from 'Deskbar_settings', which just
> > seems to hold positioning info -- I can find no trace.
> 
> The Deskbar uses an indexed attribute to find its replicants 
> (be:deskbar_item_status).

Oh ho!  I guess that explains a lot of things...
> 
> [...] 
> That means that you probably have an older version of Haiku around, for 
> example in the old /boot/beos/ folder.

How restricted is the universe in which it searches for the attribute?
I'd moved the earlier Haiku system to the Trash rather than deleting it,
in case I wanted to restore or examine it after the update...
[I see it uses a 'security code' to make sure it gets the right replicant,
but maybe in my sequence of actions I got the code attached to the wrong one.]

Anyhow, to finally close this saga down, while I was looking at the source
I found that desklink can either work on the mixer or 'direct audio output'.
Then I found there is an item in the Volume Control that I hadn't noticed
before -- "Options" was set to 'direct output'!  When that got changed,
I don't know, but flipping it back fixed everything!  (Guess the second
option doesn't work on the Crystal chip.  Might be nice to have a better
indication than an unuseable slider, though!)

Sorry about the convoluted journey.  Amazing how one can miss what should
be fairly obvious...

                        -- Pete --

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