Bug#539168: gnome-media: gnome-volume-control allways display microphone capture as muted - can't unmute

[Javier Di Mauro]

Package: gnome-media
Version: 2.26.0-1
Severity: normal

When i try to enable mic recording via gnome volume control, it
allways show it as muted.
If i unmute this item (in Recording -> Capture), nothing changes (this
setting is not working).
After closing and opening again the gnome volume control window, i can
see this muted again.

There are some bug reports filed at:
Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/299642
Upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578174

Is there a temporary way to make mic recording work until bug gets fixed?

Thanks!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-media depends on:
ii  gnome-media-common     2.26.0-1          GNOME media utilities - common fil
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.23-3         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-esd [gst 0.10.15-2         GStreamer plugin for ESD
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.13-1         GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.23-3         GStreamer plugins from the "base"
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.15-2         GStreamer plugins from the "good"
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.24.1-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.24.1-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0       0.12-1            Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0           0.12-1            a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.2-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.4-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.1-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-media0        2.26.0-1          runtime libraries for the GNOME me
ii  libgnome2-0            2.26.0-1          The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.26.0-1          A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.1-1          The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.24.1-3        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.23-3         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.23-2         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.17-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3+b1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib 0.9.15-2          PulseAudio client libraries (glib
ii  libpulse0              0.9.15-2          PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.0-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libunique-1.0-0        1.0.8-1           Library for writing single instanc
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-2      GNOME XML library
ii  x11-utils              7.4+1             X11 utilities
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

gnome-media recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-media suggests:
pn  pulseaudio                    <none>     (no description available)

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