Daniel; you suggest that for those of using the gnome mixer stuff that we should file a bug against that; I did (24090) - it got closed because it is similar to this one - I can't win hey?
I suggest there really are two separate bugs: 1) Somewhere in the mixer hardware/driver a setting of '0' on the 'master' mixer does not cause the output to be muted; it is possible that this is what the hardware expects; but it's also possible its just a driver bug; either way it either needs fixing in the driver or actually definining that '0' is just quieter than '1'; and needs to be consistant accross different cards. 2) The gnome-applet expects '0' to be equivalent to mute and thus displays its mute symbol (and doesn't let you set the real mute). Hence why I filed 24090. I suggest reopening 24090 to attack the gnome bug; I'm not sure what the right answer to (1) is - if the hardware really doesn't mute on 0 volume then I guess it's ok to define it like that; but it is probably confusing as hell but I guess it isn't consistant accross the different cards. (The text of the reject in 24090 seems odd - it seems to ref bug 10155 which is completely different) -- sound still comes out of speakers when PCM volume is set to 0 https://launchpad.net/bugs/16454 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
