Bug#798403: pavucontrol no longer works with multi-media keys, it worked fine in Wheezy

[Felipe Sateler]

On 8 September 2015 at 17:09, jtl <jtl_ at hotmail.com> wrote:

> root at DellMC:/home/jtl# aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 3: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> Using $alsamixer, then F6, then select "0  HDA Intel" and un-muting S/PDIF
> gets HDMI audio going, but you can not control the volume. Further more the
> changes are lost after a reboot.
>
> If you install pavucontrol and configure it to use HDMI, the changes are
> saved, but the keyboard multi-media controls have no effect on pulseaudio
>
> Please note pavucontrol worked fine in Wheezy. Both Jessie and Wheezy use
> the Xfce desktop.

It seems Xfce in jessie does not have support for pulseaudio. So you
will need to configure the multimedia keys manually via
xfce-settings-manager to move the volume via the pulseaudio command
line tools (in package pulseaudio-utils). Use `pactl set-sink-volume
<sink> +10%`  to raise the volume, and `pactl set-sink-volume <sink>
-10%` to lower it.



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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler