Bug 309291 - capture can't be disabled in gnome-volume-control
Summary: capture can't be disabled in gnome-volume-control
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-media
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-09-27 16:46 UTC by Zack Cerza
Modified: 2009-01-09 07:16 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 07:16:52 UTC
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2007-09-27 17:40 UTC, Zack Cerza
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Description Zack Cerza 2007-09-27 16:46:11 UTC
Description of problem:
Using PA, I can enable mic capture under the settings tab, but I can't disable
it. Immediately after the box goes unchecked, it is checked again.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-media-2.20.0-2.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

Comment 1 Zack Cerza 2007-09-27 17:33:54 UTC
Sorry, I meant the "Switches" tab. To see it, go to Preferences and check the
box next to "Microphone Capture".

Comment 2 Zack Cerza 2007-09-27 17:34:52 UTC
so... the "Capture" checkbox in Preferences might be the one that's *actually*
responsible.

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2007-09-27 17:36:17 UTC
Lennart, does pulseaudio muck about with the capture status for input tracks?

Zack, can you reproduce without pulseaudio running?

Comment 4 Zack Cerza 2007-09-27 17:40:34 UTC
Created attachment 208741 [details]
Screenshot

Here's a screenshot, for clarification...

Comment 5 Zack Cerza 2007-09-28 19:31:24 UTC
Any special way I need to disable PA?

Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2007-09-28 20:10:05 UTC
"killall -9 pulseaudio" will do.

Comment 7 Zack Cerza 2007-09-28 20:24:57 UTC
After killing pulseaudio, I can still reproduce this.

Comment 8 Lennart Poettering 2007-10-01 17:15:17 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> "killall -9 pulseaudio" will do.

Not so rude! ;-)

A friendly "pactl exit" should do the same. 

Comment 9 Lennart Poettering 2007-10-01 17:19:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Lennart, does pulseaudio muck about with the capture status for input tracks?
> 
> Zack, can you reproduce without pulseaudio running?

PA doesn't fiddle with the capture source controls in ALSA. All it does is
monitoring the ALSA volume scales. And it doesn't even set those, except the
user explicitly asks for it. 

I am quite sure that PA is not the culprit here.

Zack, does toggling the same control in alsamixer work?

(gnome-volume-control has some ugly hacks to change the mute control when volume
is set to 0 - maybe it does the same ugly hack for controlling the record input
source? Just a wild guess...)

Comment 10 Bastien Nocera 2007-10-03 10:52:19 UTC
I can reproduce that on my desktop machine.

Comment 11 Zack Cerza 2007-10-03 15:06:57 UTC
I can't *find* the same control with alsamixer.

Comment 12 Bastien Nocera 2007-10-03 16:08:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> I can't *find* the same control with alsamixer.

That's because it's a way to mute/disable the input. gnome-volume-control will
show both a switch and a track slider.

Press tab in alsamixer to see the "Mic" track.

Comment 13 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 13:56:05 UTC
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported
during the development of Fedora 8. In order to refocus our efforts as
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Comment 14 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 07:51:45 UTC
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Comment 15 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:16:52 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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