Bug 811475 - can't control things like input selection and microphone boost
Summary: can't control things like input selection and microphone boost
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-11 08:24 UTC by Karel Volný
Modified: 2015-12-02 16:03 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-12-02 02:37:19 UTC
Type: Bug
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all channels in alsamixer (65.17 KB, image/png)
2012-04-11 08:24 UTC, Karel Volný
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Description Karel Volný 2012-04-11 08:24:28 UTC
Created attachment 576701 [details]
all channels in alsamixer

Description of problem:
In kmix, I have only one output and one input control slider.
Compare to the attached screenshot of alsamixer.
Via kmix, I cannot control things like microphone boost.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdemultimedia-kmix-4.8.2-1.fc17.x86_64

Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2012-04-11 13:38:37 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 811095 ***

Comment 2 Joseph Shraibman 2012-04-11 13:55:39 UTC
Shouldn't kmix be able to control all those sliders?  Isn't that what the pulseaudio module module-device-manager is for?

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2012-04-11 16:12:36 UTC
No. PulseAudio intentionally does not expose low-level controls in its API. (Lennart Poettering designed it that way.) Allowing access to them would need another PulseAudio module. Now that Lennart has handed off PulseAudio upstream maintainership to Colin Guthrie (the PulseAudio KDE integration guy), there's some chance an extension for low-level controls could get in, but somebody would have to write it.

Comment 5 Karel Volný 2012-04-17 10:16:57 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 811095 ***

ahem, are you sure?

the inability to choose a channel from a list of available channels is something completely different than unavailability of certain channels & switches

FTR, I am able to choose between various "streams" in the "choose master channel dialogue", so I am NOT seeing bug #811095

(In reply to comment #3)
> No. PulseAudio intentionally does not expose low-level controls in its API.

then it is a bug of PA => reopening & reassigning

> ... but somebody would have to write it.

- and setting top severity, as not being able to control the input has grave effect on VoIP (and not just that)

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Comment 7 Karel Volný 2013-07-23 11:14:42 UTC
yep, I still have to go to alsamixer to set up mic for VoIP

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Comment 9 Joseph Shraibman 2015-01-11 02:25:11 UTC
In fedora 20 the kde mixer lets me adjust my mic level.  My mic just doesn't work, and hasn't for years now, through multiple os and motherboard upgrades.

Comment 10 Karel Volný 2015-01-12 13:08:28 UTC
(In reply to Joseph Shraibman from comment #9)
> In fedora 20 the kde mixer lets me adjust my mic level.

lucky you ...

I still don't see any mixing options in the _mixer_

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Comment 12 Karel Volný 2015-11-05 14:11:55 UTC
(In reply to Fedora End Of Life from comment #11)
> This message is a reminder that Fedora 21 is nearing its end of life.

I wanted to re-test but ... I gave up

audio in Fedora 23 + KDE 5 is a mess, I don't even know how to get rid of the *second* mixer icon that appeared in systray :-(

Comment 13 Rex Dieter 2015-11-05 14:22:13 UTC
As far as the second mixer goes, see bug #1274869 and
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-a00b170f97

Comment 14 Karel Volný 2015-11-05 14:36:00 UTC
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #13)
> As far as the second mixer goes, see bug #1274869 and
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-a00b170f97

that's merely a workaround, not a fix

... but it made me to re-test and I see this has been fixed properly meanwhile - going to systray settings, I can now uncheck the audio volume checkbox, making the second icon to disappear

okay, next time I'll try not to give a month or two old info :-)

[sorry for OT]

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