Bug 121376

Summary: Volume control decrements step-by-step
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mikael Carneholm <carniz>
Component: gnome-appletsAssignee: Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
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Version: rawhideCC: adam, agompel, carwyn, chaye, gczarcinski, kc0, maestronn, msr714, netdragon, newren, olaf, oliva, petrosyan, richard
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Description Mikael Carneholm 2004-04-20 21:00:07 UTC
Description of problem:
If I set the volume control to control the Master channel and drag the
bar to any position above the absolute bottom, it starts moving down
step-by-step (approx. two "ticks" per second). It's as if it was a
rubber band attached to it that pulls it down. Very strange.

I have to set it to control the "Volume" (channel?) to make it stay
up, but this setting isn't remembered between sessions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.0

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on speaker icon in the tray
2. Drag the knob/bar to desired level
  
Actual results:
The knob/bar starts moving downwards

Expected results:
It should stay where you leave it

Additional info:
Hardware setup: Shuttle ST62K, ATI RS300 chipset
ALSA version: alsa-lib-1.0.3a-1, alsa-utils-1.0.3-1

Comment 1 Mike Becker 2004-04-24 23:53:54 UTC
This problem has reared it's ugly head here on this Gateway M500
laptop in FC2-T3 as well...  When I first log into Gnome the login
sound file is played but there after I have no sound.  The sound chip
used is the ALI-5451.

Also, I have the same bug/problem as described in bug #119732 in that
when I open the volume applet there appears two mixer tabs with one
being ALSA Mixer and the other OSS Mixer.

BTW - the sound plays normally in the KDE desktop!

Comment 2 Mike Becker 2004-04-25 00:31:21 UTC
Next time I will double-check everything before I say word -- I no
longer have any sound working in KDE either!!!  Everything looks
normal, Kmix shows I should have sound at my disposal, but nothing is
heard....

Aagghh!!!

Comment 3 Demond James 2004-05-03 12:48:43 UTC
Same thing here with a SIS7012 sound chipset.

I can set the volume level to max and it will stay there and sound
levels ARE restored after reboot.  However, if I do not set the volume
level to maximum in the panel applet, it gradually lowers until itâs
at 0 and the master level will be muted upon reboot because that's
what was stored at shutdown.  I can set the master volume level to
whatever I want if I bring up the mixer and adjust it there and it
retains that level.


Comment 4 Demond James 2004-05-07 16:39:24 UTC
This problem happens in FC2-test3 with a fresh install.  Could someone
change the version to test3?

Comment 5 Adam Bowns 2004-05-20 00:50:33 UTC
Same problem with FC2 final. I also have 2 mixers as mentioned above.
Sound card is soundblaster live (emu10k1).

Comment 6 Elijah Newren 2004-05-22 16:05:42 UTC
This is a duplicate of the upstream
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139961.  I have updated rpms
available at http://www.math.utah.edu/~newren/linux/random/download/.
 (I created the rpms by merely taking the 2.6.1 tarball of
gnome-applets from ftp.gnome.org and using it in place of the 2.6.0
tarball in the fedora srpm).  The rpms at that site fix the problem
for me.  :)

Comment 7 Carwyn Edwards 2004-05-25 20:05:49 UTC
I can verify this problem in FC2 Final on SB Live. I can also confirm
that the fix mentioned in comment #6 works.

Comment 8 Miloslav Trmac 2004-07-11 13:40:42 UTC
*** Bug 123961 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Miloslav Trmac 2004-07-11 13:41:13 UTC
*** Bug 127598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Justin Georgeson 2004-07-12 20:57:11 UTC
Elijah's RPM from comment #6 works for me, too.

Comment 11 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-19 14:23:59 UTC
*** Bug 121061 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-19 14:25:12 UTC
*** Bug 120861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-19 14:28:44 UTC
*** Bug 121797 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Alexandre Oliva 2004-07-20 08:07:35 UTC
Problem still present in FC3test1.

Comment 15 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-21 14:32:47 UTC
I'm going to pull in gnome-applets-2.6.2 in an FC2 update soon. It'll
go into rawhide too.

Comment 16 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-21 14:33:21 UTC
*** Bug 127205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-22 16:24:01 UTC
Just pushed a testing update which should fix this:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-July/msg00494.html

Appreciate if someone could try it out and confirm.

Comment 18 Carwyn Edwards 2004-07-22 17:14:00 UTC
I can confirm that gnome-applets-2.6.2.1-1 fixes this problem on FC2.

Anything in particular you want me to try? The "Steps to reproduce" in
the original bug report no longer reproduce it :-)

Comment 19 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-23 09:02:47 UTC
Thanks for testing :-)

And Elijah - thanks for tracking down the upstream bug and making a
test RPM with the fix available. Very helpful ...

Comment 20 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-27 07:40:01 UTC
Okay, gnome-applets-2.6.2.1-1 has been pushed to FC2 updates

Comment 21 Matt Wagenknecht 2004-07-27 16:08:00 UTC
Applying gnome-applets-2.6.2.1-1 this morning via up2date has caused
this issue to appear for me.. it was working fine before. 

running FC2