Bug#652306: pulseaudio: cannot select different master channel

[Felipe Sateler]

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Hi Kenneth,

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:18:18PM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Foy Jr wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 1.0-4
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> After I install Debian testing with a KDE environment, my volume is too loud.
> When I try to turn it down, the screen tells me that the level is going down,
> but the sound doesn't change until the level is almost to mute. Then, the sound
> gets too quiet, so the sound is either too loud, too quiet or muted with a lot
> of space in between where the volume doesn't change.
>
> When I right-click the volume (KMix) to investigate and select another master
> channel, there is only one channel listed: Internal Audio Analog Stereo. Changing
> the Current Mixer option doesn't give me more channels. When I run alsamixer in
> a terminal, there's only one channel: Master. If I remove pulseaudio and log out
> or restart kdm or the computer (can't remember which), KMix then has several
> channels to choose from, and alsamixer has about a dozen channels as well. Then,
> I can pick one—like PCM—which has the full range of volume.
> 
> My computer is several years old, and its sound jack on the back is actually a
> headphone jack. The Master and Headphone channels also affect the volume after
> removing pulseaudio.

Does this still happen with pulseaudio 5.0 from testing?


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler