Bug#755836: pulseaudio: On Satellite L55-B5276, muting master mutes other channels

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> On 07/24/2014 11:33 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>
>> This seems to be the same problem described in upstream bug 79911[1].
>
>
> It does sound very similar.
>
>
>> To verify that, could you please try to mute and unmute via pulseaudio
>> directly. This is done with the command:
>
>
> The problem is that something changed (I think after restarting) such that I
> now see totally different mix controls.
>
> There are no Headphones or Speakers controls at all.  The tabs in KMix are:
>
> * Playback Devices
> * Capture Devices 2
> * Playback Streams 3
> * Capture Streams 4
>
> In Playback Devices, the only two are:
>
> * Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (HDMI)
> * Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
>
> No speakers or headphones controls here.
>
> The KDE Audio and Video Settings still show PulseAudio Sound Server as the
> Playback Device in the "Playback Device Preference" lists.

But do you still see the symptoms? It seems to me the problem was not
on pulseaudio, but something else. Quite possibly you updated that
something else resulting in the bug going away :).



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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler