Package: xfce4-mixer
Version: 4.8.0-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
My hardware environment is an Acer Aspire laptop, model 5253-bz849.
After performing an update recently, I noticed that the alsa
mixer controls had changed their defaults and are now
persistent in not wanting to mute pcm or internal mic boost.
For example, now I'm getting a (very loud) beep on every ACPI
event (eg. disconnect laptop from AC) and whenever I compile
a file using geany.
When I manually open the mixer (on my XFCE v4.8 taskbar notification area)
and manually select mute for those two options, the icons DO display mute;
however, upon closing the alsa_mixer and reopening the alsa_mixer, those
two icons (pcm and mic boost) show un-muted. And, in fact, when I open
geany and compile a program, geany audibly beeps upon completion of the
commpile.
This is especially annoying because it has happened in the past,
after a previous apt-get update. That first time the update to the
package had messed with the /var/lib/alsa/asound.state file, which
was the only config file mentioned in the alsactl man page. At the
time, I fiddled with /var/lib/alsa/asound.state and used (su) alsactl restore
to get the system to mute.
Fortunately, I retained a backup copy of my modifications, so when I
go really annoyed with all the noise (and it is REALLY annoying) and
the unresponsive (non-su) gui mixer control, I went looking for my
backup and restored my prior state.
So, the 'not muting' issue seems to just part of the story:
1] The updates are destructive to prior configurations, without
an update-time warning or prompt;
2] If the file /etc/asound.conf is relevant to alsactl, it should
be documented either 'man alsactl' or in the one of the config
files themselves. The current man file mentions only the file
in /var/... When I 'zgrep -r asound /usr/share/man/*', all I
get for /etc/asound.conf is a reference in man amidi.
3] A person shouldn't need administrator privileges to mute his/her
laptop speaker.
If you would like me submit separate bugs for these related issues, let me know.
System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xfce4-mixer depends on:
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.36-1
ii gstreamer0.10-esd [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.24-1
ii gstreamer0.10-gconf [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.31-3
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.22-3+b1
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.36-1
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.31-3
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio [gstreamer0.10-audiosink] 0.10.31-3
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.36-1
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-1
ii libxfce4ui-1-0 4.8.1-1
ii libxfce4util4 4.8.2-1
ii libxfconf-0-2 4.8.1-1
ii xfce4-panel 4.8.6-3
xfce4-mixer recommends no packages.
xfce4-mixer suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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