Bug#684928: volti: volume level numerical values differ from the ones shown by alsamixer

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: volti
Version: 0.2.3-4
Severity: normal

Hello and thanks for maintaining Volti in Debian!

I've just installed this package and I'm giving it a try.

I noticed that the internal mixer shows volume level numerical values
that differ from the ones shown by alsamixer.
I think that this is very confusing, especially if one plans to use
alsamixer in some circumstances and volti in other ones.

I found out that there's a configuration option to disable the internal
mixer and use an external one: I chose to use alsamixer as external
mixer and thought I could be happy with this setting.

Unfortunately the channel that is controlled by the slider that is
obtained by left-clicking on the volti icon in the systray is affected
by the same issue!  :-(
Hence, if this slider controls the master channel, I may see that volti
claims its volume level is 95, while alsamixer says that the Master
level is 88. Changing this level from either volti or alsamixer modifies
both numbers, but they are never equal to each other!
Again, I think this is very confusing.

Please fix this bug and/or forward my bug report upstream, as
appropriate.

Thanks for your time.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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 volti depends on:
ii  python            2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-alsaaudio  0.5+svn36-1+b2
ii  python-dbus       1.1.1-1
ii  python-gobject    3.2.2-1
ii  python-gtk2       2.24.0-3
ii  python-xlib       0.14+20091101-1

volti recommends no packages.

volti suggests no packages.

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