I also I can confirm this is working great on my system.
Intel core 2 Quad core Q6600, with At I radeon 5770
And Xonar DX sound card.
Cheers
Dave
Sent from my Nexus 7...
On 6 Dec 2013 23:52, Richard Elkins richard.elk...@gmail.com wrote:
Alistair et al,
I can confirm that this indicator-sound-gtk2 package update SUCCEEDS on
2 different Xubuntu Saucy machines in my house: one with an Intel i915
kernel module and one with a gma500_gfx kernel module (Modesetting Xorg
video driver).
Folks - please try the following procedure or the equivalent out, okay?
1. Make sure that patches are *not* in effect. E.g. With synaptic,
re-install indicator-sound and indicator-sound-gtk from the repositories.
2. Restart the desktop (E.g. sudo reboot).
3. Verify that the audio widget in the upper-right corner isn't
functioning as it ought to.
4. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:a-j-buxton/indicator-sound-gtk2
5. sudo apt-get -y update
6. sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
7. Restart the desktop.
Thank you, Alistair.
Richard
On 12/06/2013 05:53 AM, Alistair Buxton wrote:
PPA with fixed package:
https://launchpad.net/~a-j-buxton/+archive/indicator-sound-gtk2
ppa:a-j-buxton/indicator-sound-gtk2
This doesn't use the workaround from the bug report. It fixes it in a
way which is hopefully compatible with other desktops. It needs
testing though, on systems with both Xubuntu and Unity installed.
On 6 December 2013 09:55, P.K. pliniusmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Too much unreasonable negativism, I think. Xubuntu 13.10 is generally a
fine
operating system, of high quality. Stable as a rock and reliable.
The very small group of Xubuntu developers have done a great job, for
which
I'm very grateful to them.
If you want an enterprise grade operating system, pick Xubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Period. No use spending too much dev time on an operating system that has
a
lifespan of a mere nine months. That time is better spent on the next LTS
and on the point releases of the current LTS.
That said: I think it would perhaps be a good idea to present the
workaround
for the bug of volume control in the panel, *in full* on the Release Notes
page of 13.10. Instead of a mere link to the bug report on Launchpad.
Easier
to find, easier to apply Maybe with a cautionary word about side
effects
if you have installed other desktop environments as well.
Regards, Pjotr.
2013/12/6 legacy daily legacyda...@gmail.com
I also felt this was a real issue. Between this and a number of other
annoying bugs - like race condition booting from SSD, new users may end
up
quite disappointed. Hopefully the LTS will have a much higher quality.
- George
On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Richard Elkins richard.elk...@gmail.com
wrote:
The issues with bug #1208204 are these:
(1) The complaints began in July. As of 70 milliseconds ago, this bug is
not assigned to anyone, with a status of Undecided, and still marked as
New to Ubuntu Studio.
(2) See Peter Flynn's earlier mail. Well-articulated IMO.
(3) If the indicator-sound package is re-released without a fix to
#1208204 (and this has happened at least once), then you have to apply
the
patch again. Maybe again and again. And so on.
In message #69 of the bug report, there is an attachment is an automated
patch for XFCE users which obviates the need to manually edit the file
each
time indicator-sound is rolled out without a fix to this issue. It does
take care that it is being used by an XFCE user. However, it's still a
work-around. A lesser of evils.
Some other solutions for non-tech users seeking a light-weight desktop:
(1) Go back to Xubuntu 13.04. Read reviews before attempting an upgrade.
(2) Replace Xubuntu with Lubuntu/LXDE.
(3) Replace Xubuntu with Mint/MATE.
In any of them, users must take care to backup their data somewhere safe
before doing a new ground-up installation. All of them are disruptive
and
personal time-wasters.
Richard
On 12/05/2013 11:12 AM, Bruno Benitez wrote:
Hi, Pjtor, I am not a programmer, but I see a huge problem with your
very
easy fix, you see, xubuntu shares most and almost all their setting from
mainbuntu, so the file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/indicator-sound.service
belongs to all the *buntu multiverse, changing its content would have
affected all the flavours and then break the ubuntu's panels. Xubuntu
would
have needed an special indicator-sound.service and all the programs
that
call the service would have to be tuned to use this, as far as i
understand.
Now I readily admit that I'm no developer and I can't fabricate an
update
package that does this, but *it looks* dead simple to do, in my layman's
eyes. And it *would* be a big Public Relations bonus for Xubuntu 13.10.
It is one
