Bug#451203: gnome-applets: correction and more information from more tests
Sven Arvidsson
sa at whiz.se
Sat May 10 17:04:12 UTC 2008
Hi,
Can you please add this to the upstream bug report at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491493
I could add it for you, but it's a lot easier if you take part in the
upstream discussion directly, as I have no way of reproducing the
problem.
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 04:00 +0200, A B wrote:
> Package: gnome-applets
> Version: 2.20.1-3
> Followup-For: Bug #451203
>
>
> Hello again,
>
> I did more testings, including with an other card (usb-audio, usb code
> 046d:0a01, it's a Headset sound card type from Logitech).
>
> Sadly I have to correct my previous report. Altough I didn't notice it,
> I also get volume problems with the 2.14.3-4, it will just never display
> the volume as a false mute.
>
> Still on hda-intel the behavior on 2.14.3-4 is like this:
> Randomly, when changing the master volume (and checking with an alsamixer also
> running), the left volume channel drops to zero, while the right volume
> stays correct. On the next change, the two channels are averaged. So after
> some up key I got 75% -> 79% but the left channel dropped to zero in
> alsamixer. Then I decreased it, the new value was 35% (79/2 -4)
> for the two channels. Actual values from test.
>
> With 2.20.1-3, the behavior is a bit different, I never see the left channel
> dropping to zero, but about the same happens.
> One test: I did up with 28% and it dropped to 16%. I can assume it's
> increased first and then divided by 2 ((28+4)/2). Other try: 59% up, I get
> 31% ((59+4)/2). There's also the random false mute display, but I can't
> find it linked with when the volume gets wrong.
>
> Now with the usb-audio card it's worse. I have to use the "Speaker"
> control because there's no master. It gets wrong at almost each use.
> It can take several seconds keeping the up key repeating before reaching
> 100%. Even if sometimes it works fine for some time, it's almost
> impossible to set it correctly with the mixer_applet2, while as usual it's
> always working fine with alsamixer. Sadly the usb-audio doesn't appear
> to have an OSS emulation API.
>
> I can also notice that if I change the volume on alsamixer, the
> (2.20.1-3) mixer_applet2 also randomly shows the false mute.
>
> Other interesting info, but it's no more with mixer_applet2: if I run
> gnome-volume-control (which behaves as bad as mixer_applet2) and change
> the sound on alsamixer, the bug appears. gnome-volume-control, by just
> being around makes the sound control unstable even if changing its settings
> with alsamixer.
>
> Debug should be done with a usb-audio card, much more interesting samples.
>
>
> regards,
> A.B.
>
>
> -- System Information:
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (10, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-1-strider (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.21 Debian configuration management sy
> ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
> ii gnome-applets-data 2.20.1-3 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel
> ii gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
> ii gnome-panel 2.20.3-3 launcher and docking facility for
> ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-1 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
> ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.7-3 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
> ii libapm1 3.2.2-10 Library for interacting with APM d
> ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library
> ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii libcpufreq0 002-7.2 shared library to deal with the cp
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
> ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
> ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.22.1-1 Utility library for loading .deskt
> ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
> ii libgnomekbd2 2.22.0-1 GNOME library to manage keyboard c
> ii libgnomekbdui2 2.22.0-1 User interface library for libgnom
> ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
> ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-2 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
> ii libgnomevfs2-extra 1:2.22.0-2 GNOME Virtual File System (extra m
> ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0 0.10.19-1 GStreamer libraries from the "base
> ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.19-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
> ii libgtop2-7 2.22.1-1 gtop system monitoring library
> ii libgucharmap6 1:2.22.1-1 Unicode browser widget library (sh
> ii libhal1 0.5.11~rc2-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
> ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk 0.4.4-3 sends desktop notifications to a n
> ii liboobs-1-3 2.20.0-1 GObject based interface to system-
> ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.20.3-3 library for GNOME Panel applets
> ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii libwnck22 2.22.1-1 Window Navigator Construction Kit
> ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
> ii libxklavier12 3.5-1 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
> ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
> ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o
>
> Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
> pn deskbar-applet <none> (no description available)
> ii gnome-media 2.22.0-1 GNOME media utilities
> pn gnome-netstatus-applet <none> (no description available)
> pn gnome-system-monitor <none> (no description available)
> ii python-gnome2 2.22.0-1 Python bindings for the GNOME desk
>
> -- debconf information excluded
>
>
>
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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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