| Summary: | mate-volume-control does not allow switching of primary audio device | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Steffen Mikkelsen <smikkelsendk> |
| Component: | mate-media | Assignee: | Dan Mashal <dan.mashal> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 20 | CC: | bugzilla, dan.mashal, fedora, rdieter, shawnbon206, stefano, the.changing.side |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-12-22 22:13:25 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Steffen Mikkelsen
2013-12-21 16:53:56 UTC
Sorry, i can't follow your suggestion. mate-media in fedora is compiled with pulsaudio (--enable-pulseaudio) Disabling (--enable-gst-mixer-applet) breaks support for users who don't use pulseaudio. There are a lot who think pulseaudio is a mess like me ;) Ie. slow dvb-t chanel switching in kaffeine, only one big issue with pulseaudio. And a lot of other probs if you don't use a notebook with simply stereo sound. Last but not least Lenart Portering works more on systemd as on pulsaudio, so pulseaudio is a bit unmaintained. You did mentioned that you can switch the sound card with pavucontrol, so i think you have a possibility to choose you sound device you want to use. I followed some links from other forums to this: the problem is that mate-volume-control is NOT coming up with the "pulseaudio" mixer, it's coming up with the "gst" mixer. I'm on fedora 20 with all updates. This has been true since I started using MATE on F18 or so. The page describing the problem is linked above in the description. The command "mate-volume-control" brings up the the "gst" mixer (says ALSA mixer in the title bar) and not the pulse one. Both screenshots are seen in that link. I can run pavucontrol, and it works perfectly - I'm certainly using pulseaudio. Any ideas? Pavucontrol can't actually set the default sound card: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/DefaultDevice/ Why not have two packages, mate-media-gstreamer and mate-media-pulseaudio like in Debian and Arch? Is it safe to install mate-media-1.8.0-1.fc21 or mate-media-1.7.90-1.fc21 on f20? Or should I be trying to backport the patch in Comment #3 to 1.6? Best regards, Shawn (In reply to shawnbon206 from comment #5) > Is it safe to install mate-media-1.8.0-1.fc21 or mate-media-1.7.90-1.fc21 on > f20? Or should I be trying to backport the patch in Comment #3 to 1.6? > > Best regards, > > Shawn No, mate-media from f21 expected mate-desktop-1.8.x You can try to rebuild mate-media with that configure options --disable-static \ --disable-schemas-compile \ --with-gtk=2.0 \ --enable-pulseaudio Note, file section in spec file needs also adjust. |