Bug#615122: For HDA ATI onboard sound pulseaudio volume controls wrong alsa mixer control

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Daniel,

 For an ATI HDA onboard sound device, pulseaudio controls the 'Front' mixer 
 control instead of the 'Master Front'.

Does this still happen to you? You reported this issue against an old
version of pulseaudio, so this might have been fixed since then. If
you still see this please reply so that we may debug this, otherwise
I'd like to close this bug.

Thanks

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

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Bug#615122: For HDA ATI onboard sound pulseaudio volume controls wrong alsa mixer control

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.21-4
Severity: normal


For an ATI HDA onboard sound device, pulseaudio controls the 'Front' mixer 
control instead of the 'Master Front'.  Master Front is the correct one to 
control because is the master control.  With 'Front' you are only controlling 
the front speakers in a 5.1 setup.

lspci:

ubsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82ea
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at fbbf4000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel


amixer:

Simple mixer control 'Master Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [1.75dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [1.75dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 27
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 249 [98%] [-1.20dB]
  Front Right: Playback 249 [98%] [-1.20dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 27
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-40.25dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-40.25dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 27
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 27
  Mono: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 27
  Mono: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Side',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 27
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 27 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-40.25dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-40.25dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 25 [81%] [3.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 25 [81%] [3.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-40.25dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-40.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 20
  Front Left: Capture 20 [100%] [35.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 20 [100%] [35.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 20
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Independent HP',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'OFF' 'ON'
  Item0: 'ON'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Stereo Mixer' 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD'
  Item0: 'Front Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Smart 5.1',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]


Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers squeeze-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser   3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit0.4.3-2framework for