Bug#304211: gnome-applets: volume control displays wrong channels

[Elias Pschernig]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.8.2-1
Severity: normal


The volume control applets is completely useless, since it doesn't have
a slider for the volume to control. This is the output of amixer:

> amixer | grep ^S
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Simple mixer control 'Side',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
Simple mixer control 'Softvol',0

The only control actually changing anything is the last one, "Softvol".
Now, in the volume control applet, when I click on preferences, I get
this list:

PCM
Speaker
In-gain
Digital-1

None of them works. And misteriously, it is a completely different list
than the one by amixer. What I of course would expect is to a) get the
same list of controls, and b) have at least the one control which
changes sound volume in it (Softvol), else it is totatlly useless.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (501, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-2005-04-07
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  gnome-applets-data   2.8.2-1             Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-panel          2.8.3-1             launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.8-oss [gs 0.8.8-3             OSS plugin for GStreamer
ii  libapm1              3.2.2-3             Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.9.0-1             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.8.1-2             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.8.1-2             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.4-3             GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgail-common       1.8.2-1             GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17            1.8.2-1             GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4          2.8.1-5             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11          1.2.0-11            LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.4.2-2           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.6.3-1             The GLib library of C routines
hi  libgnome2-0          2.10.0-1            The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.10.0-1            A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.10.0-1            The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
hi  libgnomevfs2-0       2.8.4-2             The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11          1.0.16-13           GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgstreamer-plugins 0.8.8-3             Various GStreamer libraries and li
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0    0.8.9-2             Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.2-4             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-2           2.6.0-4             Libraries for gtop system monitori
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.1-1          libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0   2.8.3-1             library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.1-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxklavier8         1.03-1              X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2              2.6.16-6            GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-12     X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.2-4           compression library - runtime

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