Postby sss » 01 Dec 2009 19:05
I believe this is related to the bug I have seen on my Windows 7 as well. I usually have the Volume Mixer open so that I can adjust the volume when necessary. Frequently I ran into the situation that all of a sudden that the Volume Mixer window turn black (just a windows with black background, like a black hole.) As the result, I could not change the volume. Usually I had to log out and log back in to get it back (for a short while and then it turned into black window again after working for a while.) It's so intermittent and repeatable. One day, when this happened again I accidentally quited vlc before logging off. All off a sudden, the Volume Mixer window came back! So I found a 'solution' to my problem. Also not only the vlc makes the Volume Mixer window turned black, it affects other windows as well. For example, my firefox windows and explorer windows can turn into empty windows with black frame until you click on them and then their contents show up.