Bug 321611
| Summary: | Global volume control does not work | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Julian Sikorski <belegdol> |
| Component: | pulseaudio | Assignee: | Lennart Poettering <lpoetter> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | drago01, pierre-bugzilla |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 0.9.8-4.fc8.1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-01-18 23:55:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Julian Sikorski
2007-10-06 21:03:57 UTC
Please make sure to enable the PA output plugin in gnome-sound-properties. (Which should be the case by default) The volume that you can adjust with GNOME's mixer applet is the device volume, if the GStreamer plugin for Pulse is being used. The warning you mentioned is just that: a warning. PA will fallback to use "PCM" if "Master" is not available. If neither PCM nor Master are found PA falls back to software volume control. I'll test it later. Do you actually mean that I need to use gstreamer (no xine, alsa plugin) to be able to use volume applet, if so, it's quite a regression. GStreamer is insufficient for certain applications, most notably DVD videos. OK, testing done. I read on fedora-devel-list that gnome-volume-control needs some work, so let's put that one aside for now. Unfortunately, I am not able to control global volume with pavucotrol either - sliding the slider in output devices tab has no effect, however clicking mute has. Per-stream control works fine. I have a HDA Audio here, Realtek ALC861 if that matters. It would be nice to have some kind of global volume control, if not in gnome applet, then in pavucontrol at least. Hmm, so you say that the PA volume control is practically useless? if you open "alsamixer" and play around with the "Master" slider, does this change anything with the volume? If that's the case, then you have a driver bug. For reference, alsamixer master slider (with pulse plugins set as default) also does not seem to work. We figured out what is going out on IRC. It turns out this chip (Realtek ALC861) does not support hardware volume control, and thus needs upstream work for proper fix. *** Bug 388271 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Not sure what happened. I updated to 0.9.8 from rawhide a while ago, but IIRC it did not solve the issue. I checked today, and voila, global volume control works perfectly. Maybe an ALSA update delivered support for hardware volume control for this chip? I have upgraded to pulseaudio-0.9.8-4.fc8.1 and now pulse seems to use front:0 instead of hw:0 and therefor the software volume control provided by alsa is used by PA. (Soundcard Realtek ALC 861). This also has a positive side effect that the volume is remembered between reboots. Looks like it is pulseaudio that fixed the issue then. Shall we close this bug now? Julian: I'll reference this bug in the pulseaudio update and it will be closed by Bodhi when the update is out. pulseaudio-0.9.8-4.fc8.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update pulseaudio' pulseaudio-0.9.8-4.fc8.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |