Description of problem: Gnome Volume Manager is unable to properly alter volume on the PCM channel using the following sequence of hardware. 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) on Compaq Presario V5214ea. The PCM volume control on GVM 'wobbles' when you try and change the audio level, but doesn't actually do it. You also get a noticable 'crackling' when changing the audio level. The level does go slightly up/down, but then the visual indicator does not match the level of output volume. If you use alsamixer, then you don't suffer from any problems change the PCM levels. I have found that if you unlink the left and right channels, then change the individual channels, this does seem to work, but you cannot change both [linked] audio channels at the sametime. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Gnome Volume Manager 2.20.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open up Rhythmbox 0.11.3 2. Start playing music 3. Now open up Gnome Volume Manager and try and change the PCM audio level. You will suffer from 'clicking' and generally unresponsive PCM level control Actual results: Audio levels become out of sync with visual fader level. Audio crackles when changing. Expected results: SMOOTH change of audio volume to be reflected in the visual representation of volume level. No audio crackles. Additional info: alsactl version 1.0.15 output from lspci -vv 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30a5 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22 Region 0: Memory at d0340000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Also interesting output from /var/log/messages Jan 6 14:33:03 localhost pulseaudio[2403]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz. Jan 6 14:33:03 localhost pulseaudio[2403]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Workaround is to use Alsamixer for the timebeing
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This bug should be fixed with the new gnome-volume-control and gnome-volume-control-applet in rawhide, available in the gnome-media package. Please reopen if the problem persists with those versions.